Esther M. Zimmer Lederberg
Blackamoor cameo: c. 1600

The growing Colonialism in Great Britain included not only African slaves, but the growth of an Imperial ideology. The ideology depersonalized African slaves (as well as Caucasian indentured servants, already being exploited in guilds). The ideology included reasons to justify the extermination (soon to be called "genocide") of Amerindian aboriginies (the "enlightened" idea of John Locke, later to be renamed as "genocide"). However, the ideology also included literature (poems), paintings of exotic Blackamoors (African slaves) used by the aristocracy and the growing mercahant class, and jewelery. Great Britain also preyed upon competing, but dying empires such as the Iberian union of Spain and Portugal, and eventually the Dutch.
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Blackamoor cameo 1600
Blackamoor cameo 1600
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