Imagine that you're a member of the virginia house of burgesses. you've submitted a proposal for a law that requires colonial inspectors to place grades on different qualities of harvested tobacco. the law passes but you know it won't go into effect until its approved by

The term 'white man's burden" refers to the difficulty of converting colonists to christianity. the belief that europe had a duty to civilize other people. the conviction that white people were superior to all others. the struggle to survive in an increasingly industrialized world.