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“Not long after, in AD 1493, Queen Isabella I banned the enslavement of all Native Americans unless they were either hostile or cannibalistic. It stated the Native Americans were subjects of the Crown. At the same time, Columbus stopped Indian captives from being sold in Seville, and he tracked down those who had already been sold, purchased them from their buyers, and set them free.”
― Nathaniel Johnson, Slavery: A History of the practice of slavery in Africa and the Ancient world and it's eventual abolition