It wasn’t as bad as the African slaves, but from what I recall these orphaned girls were shipped across the sea to populate new France, and, again I may be very wrong here, but I think France sent less desirable men to be their husbands. So shipped across the sea, to be wed to a criminal to push out babies for colonial aspirations.
Apropos, I’m reading “Sapiens” right now, and it’s been quite the mind-fuck to me. Currently I’m struggling with the fact that we were essentially hunters & gatherers for millions of years before 12Kyrs ago we started hacking, manipulating and fucking with reality in order to completely transform ourselves in to agricultural-based societies, and the ultimate negatives of doing such are… almost mind-reeling.
In short, I’m re-thinking a lot of things the past few days, and it certainly helps put modern humans’ chronic and shameless cruelty upon each other in slightly different lights.
And we haven’t had a lot of time to evolve or adapt to our new niche either. So most of our brains and bodies are still the hunter gatherer archetypes.
It wasn’t as bad as the African slaves, but from what I recall these orphaned girls were shipped across the sea to populate new France, and, again I may be very wrong here, but I think France sent less desirable men to be their husbands. So shipped across the sea, to be wed to a criminal to push out babies for colonial aspirations.
Foof, that sounds sadly familiar across history. Thanks for explaining!
A tale as old as time:(
Apropos, I’m reading “Sapiens” right now, and it’s been quite the mind-fuck to me. Currently I’m struggling with the fact that we were essentially hunters & gatherers for millions of years before 12Kyrs ago we started hacking, manipulating and fucking with reality in order to completely transform ourselves in to agricultural-based societies, and the ultimate negatives of doing such are… almost mind-reeling.
In short, I’m re-thinking a lot of things the past few days, and it certainly helps put modern humans’ chronic and shameless cruelty upon each other in slightly different lights.
/rant
We went from a part of nature, to dominating nature.
And we haven’t had a lot of time to evolve or adapt to our new niche either. So most of our brains and bodies are still the hunter gatherer archetypes.
Exactly.