emmadilemma quoted These Truths by Jill Lepore
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"The natives, they are all dead of small Poxe," John Winthrop wrote when he arrived in New England in 1630: "the Lord hathe cleared our title to what we possess."
— These Truths by Jill Lepore (Page 20)
Citing Alfred Crosby, "Ecological Imperialism: Biological Expansion of Europe," Cambridge University Press, 1986
