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We went overboard on the kill off.and enslave in the Americas. 90% of the population of both continents straight up died.
Yes. There is evidence to suggest that while they(Europeans) definitely took advantage of the deaths, most of the deaths were accidental from disease. Not all of the disease was maybe quite so accidental though.
E.G. one recorded instance in the 7 years war where British/American forces delivered blankets as a gift to nearby natives, some of the blankets were from the infirmary where there was smallpox. However, the notes and letters we have don't inform us as to whether that was an intentional move on the part of the fort commander, or a logistical error that resulted in the gift being tainted.
That incident may not have been intentional The ones we took out west on the other hand.....
Yeah but that was an accident, we gave the poor bastards the plague. Whereas most/all of the killing done in other places was, well, by hand.
Little bit of column A, and a little bit of we have guns....