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AD 1512: Spanish conquistador kidnaps Calusas in Florida

Theme
Native Rights
Region
Southeast

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Spanish and European explorers torture, kidnap, and enslave Native peoples throughout the Americas. Line engraving by Theodor de Bry, 1590.

Courtesy Granger Collection, New York

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Juan Ponce de Léon, Spanish explorer, from a 17th-century Spanish engraving

Courtesy Granger Collection, New York