• The_Grinch [he/him]@hexbear.net
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    4 months ago

    Even by that “legal” standard, isn’t a contract signed under duress invalid? One side has guns and regularly took land by force and murder.

    • Belly_Beanis [he/him]@hexbear.net
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      4 months ago

      Yes lol

      Native Americans weren’t stupid. They were forced into bad treaties at literal gunpoint. They knew the island of Manhattan was more valuable than what they were getting in return. But it was either take a shitty deal or get genocided.