Business and Humanities Colloquium Series: “Violence on the American Frontier: colonization, slavery, and resistance in Colonial and Antebellum America”

Description: In the history of the colonization of the Americas, violence has been used as a tool for either oppression or control. From Spanish Conquistadores' brutal methods to subdue Indigenous populations, to the British Colonial and Post-Colonial frontier hysteria and wars with Native Americans, these tactics have been central to conducting both a literal and psychic campaign to terrorize or commit genocide. Similarly, methods used during the Middle Passage, and for creating and perpetuating the institution of race-based slavery, were also maintained by ultra-violent systemic means. Yet agency also thrived--as Native Americans and African Americans often turned the tables to fight their violent oppressors.