It is well documented that sex slavery and forced labor were among the many brutalities that Columbus’ crews inflicted on the native Taíno people on the island of Hispaniola (now the site of Haiti and the Dominican Republic).
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The quote underlines Columbus’s view of indigenous Americans as commodities. He compares the market value of a female sex slave with that of a piece of farmland, and notes that “of late” slave dealers were particularly interested in purchasing nine- or ten-year-old girls. This latter policy has been instrumental in suppressing the native leaders, and, indeed, given that the Spaniards normally spare only women and children, it has led to the annihilation of all adult males, whom they habitually subject to the harshest and most iniquitous and brutal slavery that man has ever devised for his fellow-men, treating them, in fact, worse than animals.
What followed were the infamous slave raids of 1495, during the second voyage. As the historian Howard Zinn, Columbus could not find as much gold on the conquered Caribbean islands as he had hoped, and so chose to round up a greater number of native slaves for export to Europe instead: Evidence also exists which indicates that, as well as overseeing the mass capture, mistreatment and export of slaves, Columbus appears to have been indifferent to brutal acts of sexual assault on young girls, in keeping with the meme’s claim that “Columbus provided native sex slaves to his men.”
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