The British and Spanish both did this in all their colonies. And most of those colonies are STILL doing it. Including Canada and the USA. --But anyone acquainted with the facts–the reduction on the indigenous population of North and South America from an estimated 10 to 18 million at the time of contact to far less than half a million by the end of the 19th century–would have a hard time finding a more accurate term. In the words of David E. Stannard, a historian at the University of Hawaii, First Nations people suffered the “worst human holocaust the world had ever witnessed, roaring across two continents non-stop for four centuries and consuming the lives of countless tens of millions of people.”
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