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He was acquitted though iirc
Also it's not like Spain didn't keep the territories and continue to enslave the locals
Well actually they did eventually give up on enslaving the locals since they would just get smallpox and die, so they brought Africans over instead.
Well...
Wikimedia: Christopher Columbus – Third Voyage
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