By Howard Winant (Click here to view the entire issue) The United States was created out of a group of European colonies located on territory expropriated from native peoples. After 1650 or so, these colonies, north and south, also engaged in widespread enslavement of African people. The distinctions are drawn by the end of the 17th Century between Europeans, on the one … [Read more...] about “A Friendly Dissent” by Howard Winant (July-August 1994 P&R Issue)
