“Just twenty-one years after Columbus’s first landing in the Caribbean, the vastly populous island that the explorer had renamed Hispaniola was effectively desolate; nearly 8,000,000 people – those Columbus chose to call Indians – had been killed by violence, disease, and despair.”

“Just twenty-one years after Columbus’s first landing in the Caribbean, the vastly populous island that the explorer had renamed Hispaniola was effectively desolate; nearly 8,000,000 people – those Columbus chose to call Indians – had been killed by violence, disease, and despair.”

— David E. Stannard