SETTLING NORTH AMERICA 1497 1732
NORTH AMERICAN EXPLORATION
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Creoles
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Native Americans
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Detailed explanation-1: -Europeans’ enslavement of Native Americans began with Columbus . As the governor of Hispaniola, he forced the Taino Indians to labor in the Spanish fields and mines, and he brought Taino slaves to Spain on his return journeys.
Detailed explanation-2: -Native Americans were enslaved by the Spanish in Florida and the Southwest under various legal tools. One tool was the encomienda system; new encomiendas were outlawed in the New Laws of 1542, but old ones continued, and the 1542 restriction was revoked in 1545.
Detailed explanation-3: -The oldest known slave society was the Mesopotamian and Sumerian civilisations located in the Iran/Iraq region between 6000-2000BCE.
Detailed explanation-4: -While natives had been forced into slavery and servitude as early as 1636, it was not until King Philip’s War that natives were enslaved in large numbers, Fisher wrote in the study.