Columbus’s New World Cristobal Colon, a Spanish elite posing as an impoverished Italian, discovered that a land he discovered had been discovered around 30,000 years prior to his arrival. This New World would never be a same again. How one single event could change course of history for so many people is hard to comprehend.
The New World that was discovered was rich with new opportunities for expansion and trade, but this daunting reality was that to build a new kingdom it would require a work force. Local Native Caribbean peoples were first to suffer enslavement. In 1503 Queen Isabella ruled that only cannibals could be taken as slaves legally, which encouraged Europeans to identify various Native Caribbean groups as cannibals.
However, these people were not suited for plantation life. They were susceptible to European diseases and were not physically adapted to intense demands. The Native American holocaust saw them fall in their millions, some like Tano, so called Arawak Indians, were forced into extinction.
Europeans then sold their fellow countrymen into slavery to fill ranks of dying Native Caribbean, however they called it indentured servitude. Dustyn called in and discussed a plethora of subjects.
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