Quote Originally Posted by ganulv View Post
So your telling me that going to the effort to consult with local leaders indicates lack of involvement? That makes no sense to me.
In some other places, they took the chieftain's land (usually the most fertile around), required everyone to pay taxes and made sure the only way to get cash was to work at low wages on the new plantation.
People who didn't cooperate were beaten, people who resisted were shot.


Yeah, to discuss with traditional elites means a relative lack of involvement.