AS Conquest

[Tristan Jones]

----- Original Message -----
From: "Anton Sherwood" <bronto at pobox.com>
Sent: Monday, December 11, 2000 4:24 PM

> petegray wrote:

>> A better example might be Spanish America.  Did the Spanish
>> still accept slavery at the of the conquistadors?

> well, Columbus reported on the potential value of the islanders as slaves.

If European germs did not kill so many of islanders, they would be used as
slaves. They intally used them, however they were not resitant enough to the
diseases, so they used African slaves and rest is history.