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Follow-up:

America isn't solely responsible for the decline of the indigenous population of the New World from ~130 million to ~15 million.

Check out what Spanish did a few centuries previously, annihilating ~8 million of indigenous and millions African slaves: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/A_Short_Account_of_the_Destruc...

Lots of blame to go around. It's essential to know all of the uncomfortable parts of history and to avoid repeating them.



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