"...all the inhabitants could be taken away to Castile, or made Slaves on the island. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."

- Christopher Columbus

"In a short time this land which was so great, so powerful and fertile, was depopulated. My eyes have seen these acts so foreign to human nature, and now I tremble as I write. From 1494 to 1508, over three million people had perished from war, slavery and the mines.

Who in future generations with believe this?"

- Bartolome de Las Casas