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better than being killed, huh?
Columbus and the colonists enslaved many of the indigenous people, including children. Natives were beaten, raped, and tortured for the location of imagined gold. Thousands committed suicide rather than face the oppression.
https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Christopher_Columbus