"America seemed a virgin land waiting for civilization. But Europe had made the wilderness it found; America was not a virgin, she was a widow."

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Source : Ronald Wright (2005). “Stolen Continents: Five Hundered Years of Conquest and Resistance in the Americas”, p.91, Houghton Mifflin Harcourt

Ronald Wright

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