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1. What did Ronald Takaki say about colonization and race and what lesson did he teach in his book, "A different mirror" and why does it matter today?

2. So much of the English interactions with the Irish, Indians, and black Africans included violence and especially gratuitous violence. Displaying an informed opinion, reflect on this propensity for violence and how it shaped colonization of the New World.

3. Discuss why English masters came to rely on indefinite servitude (that eventually became the Anglo system of chattel slavery) rather than indentured servitude.

4. Discuss why the Irish, Indians, and Anglo-Euro indentured servants were viewed by English masters as unsuitable for slavery, and why Africans were viewed as uniquely suited. Include a discussion of the relative vulnerability of each of these groups to slavery.

5. how the English came to view Indians in a homogenous way as hostile savages.

6. Describe the English interactions with the Irish, both in Ireland and in the New World (including the Caribbean), how this interaction primed , benefitted, or affected the English with regard to their later interactions with Indians and Africans

7. Discuss why the Irish, Indians, and Anglo-Euro indentured servants were viewed by English masters as unsuitable for slavery, and

8. why Africans were viewed as uniquely suited. Include a discussion of the relative vulnerability of each of these groups to slavery.