Against Imperialism

In 1590, Protestant, Theodor de Bry painted a picture showing Indigenous people working at a silver mine in South America. This picture represents a negative impact of imperialism because Indigenous people weren't originally working as slaves. Theodor de Bry was against imperialism because he saw these innocent people working for the European imperialists. He had nothing to do with it, except question.

Missionary, Bartolome de Las Casas wrote down the cruel act committed to the Indigenous people in New Spain. It was an incident he witnessed on the island of Cuba. As said in the letter, it is understood that the Spanish people had turned on the Indigenous people and tried to hurt them. This is against imperialism because, Bartolome saw how nice the indigenous people were, but saw how bad the spanish people were. That is why he stated “ the Devil” for the spanish people.

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When Christopher Columbus encountered the Taino people, he described them as friendly, and clever people. They appeared to have no religion, making them readily to become Christian and also good servants. His description of Taino people shows that this is a positive impact to imperialism because Indigenous people were attached by the goods presented from Christopher Columbus. Christopher Columbus did make some fortune when he landed in the land of Indigenous people. Shakespeare was in praise of England. In the speech, this was written; “ this blessed plot, this earth, this realm, this England”. The line in this speech shows how Shakespeare basically loved England for its beauty and importance. But this was from his point of view. At the time, England was overpowering other countries which made him like England more. Shakespeare was an english poet anyways, he was not an imperialist even though he was on the side of the imperialistic people. That is why he is still for