The Creature and Safie alike bemoan the conquering of native Americans of both the
Northern and Southern hemispheres by the various European imperial powers, who in
many cases reduced the natives to a condition of slavery. The Creature's emotional
identification with their fate is unself-conscious at this point, but the progress
of his education is leading him to understand an fundamental similarity with their
abjectness (see, for instance, II:9:5 and note).