Copper plate engravings offer one example of the racialization of colonized peoples. At the turn of the 17th century, most Europeans' visual conceptions of the Americas came from the engravings of the workshop of Flemish print-maker Theodore de Bry. Although he never traveled to the Americas, he based his work on the texts of travel narratives and images purchased from expedition staff artists. Between 1590 and 1634, he published two main volumes: Grands Voyages, detailing explorations mainly to the Americas, and Petits Voyages, describing expeditions to Africa and the East Indies.

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immigration, native americans

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american indians, racial encounters in colonial america, university of minnesota, racial and ethnic relations

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• Knovation Readability Score: 5 (1 low difficulty, 5 high difficulty)
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