Colonial Lives of Property w/ Brenna Bhandar
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The Cons of the Law of Preemption
The law of preemption allowed white settlers to appropriate land by mixing their labor with it. But that law did not apply in the same way to indigenous people. It's clear when we look at the historical record that settlers would routinely destroy crops of First Nations people. So really going back to that Lockean fantasy that America exists as this uncultivated wild is a racial trope.
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