The story of The Spanish Crown

The Spanish Crown. The monarchy that ruled Spain’s American colonies.

1502

The Spanish Crown intervened in the Great Dying of the Americas. Its governor of Hispaniola, Nicolás de Ovando, massacred 600 to 700 Indians of Higüey in 1502, per Ostler.

1542

The Spanish Crown intervened in the Great Dying of the Americas. Banned Indian slavery in 1542; colonists found ways round the ban, per Reséndez.

The Spanish Crown, involved in Four governments’ laws on Native land and labour, 1542 to 1830.

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