Comment by acjohnson55

Yeah, one of those Scotsmen is my ancestor, along with the enslaved woman he raped. And then he enslaved his own child.

Look into:

- the Mau Mau in Kenya (https://radiolab.org/podcast/mau-mau)

- prerevolutionary Haitian society from the Black Jacobins by CLR James (https://politicaleducation.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/04/CL...)

- what King Leopold of Belgium did to the Congo

- what happened to Rapa Nui (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=nCyzrie_les)

- Heart of Darkness on British imperialism in the Congo

The cost of the socio-economic mobility provided to lower classes in colonizing societies was absolutely staggering. Unimaginable cruelty, suffering and destruction was visited upon the native populations.