Roger Green, who is the Director and Founder of The Center for Critical & Cultural Theory, offered a review of the history of Spanish conquest, King Philip’s War and Bacon’s Rebellion. His presentation builds on information in his earlier lectures on Doctrine of Discovery and emergent slave codes/modern racism from early modern religious contexts. Click here for the 90-minute video that was posted on February 12, 2025

Green attempts to look at colonization of North America from an Indigenous point of view which interprets events to explore and settle land as an “invasion” of long inhabited territory.

Green begins by describing how the Spanish exploration of Southeast and Southwest America began to devastate Native populations primarily through the spread of communicable disease.

Green goes on to describe both Metacom’s and Bacon’s rebellions as attempts to respond to the increasingly racist views of the English that led to enslavement of both Native people and Africans.