re: Christopher Columbus statue beheaded by vandals in Boston

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I thought it started a century later but it seems started in 1511. But still the Spanish farmed the actual collecting and selling of slaves to the Italians and eventually the British and Dutch. They just pocketed the change on selling the rights to the trade

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The Portuguese were the kings of the slave trade. Then, the English, then the Dutch (who dominated it, before it died out).