Why European Colonialism Was a Disaster for Native Americans
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SummaryThe smallpox epidemic that virtually wiped out the natives in their own land was asdisastrous as perhaps any epidemic that has ever existed in human history. While AIDS is doing enormous damage and harm to the people of Africa, it is not suffering from a population implosion. In fact, the population of Africa is increasing at an enormous rate, and many parts of the continent are actually thriving. The disease epidemic of smallpox, however, did not allow such mercy on the earliest inhabitants of the Americas.
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- The smallpox epidemic that virtually wiped out the natives in their own land was asdisastrous as perhaps any epidemic that has ever existed in human history
- To make matters even worse, much worse, for the natives, slavery was harshly forced upon them. This occurred even during Columbus' first voyage to the Americas
- Although native tribes went to war and enslaved members of the same and other tribes, it did not cause their overall population to shrink and become a shell of its former self
- In conclusion, the destruction of Native Americans on their own homeland is nothingless than a Holocaust
- We are the slaughterers. It is the tortured soulof our world
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