Only by the English. This is because the English system promotes exactly those types of behaviors. The other European powers (and the US) are kind of shit at it.
Yeah, sure, then there's King Leopold, one of the single bloodiest serial killing demociders in all of Colonial Europe.
Yes, the Dutch, French, and Portuguese had some fairly reasonable and quaint settlements. Frankly, the French in North America were very accommodating, and favored integration. But each of them had moments where they truly went off the deep and and tried to kill or rape everything.
Really, it was only ever the English that tended to go the least crazy, when they inevitably went crazy.
You know what has a long historical record of growing wealth in 3rd world shitholes and improving conditions for the locals? Colonization.
Only by the English. This is because the English system promotes exactly those types of behaviors. The other European powers (and the US) are kind of shit at it.
Some Dutch settlers weren't too bad.
Yeah, sure, then there's King Leopold, one of the single bloodiest serial killing demociders in all of Colonial Europe.
Yes, the Dutch, French, and Portuguese had some fairly reasonable and quaint settlements. Frankly, the French in North America were very accommodating, and favored integration. But each of them had moments where they truly went off the deep and and tried to kill or rape everything.
Really, it was only ever the English that tended to go the least crazy, when they inevitably went crazy.