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How did Christopher Columbus contribute to the erasure of the Taino people?

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The Spaniards exploited the island's gold mines and reduced the Taíno to slavery. Within twenty-five years of Columbus' arrival in Haiti, most of the Taíno had died from enslavement, massacre, or disease. By 1514, only 32,000 Taíno survived in Hispaniola. 1492-93.

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