The Colonization of South America

South America was populated by indigenous people until the seventeenth century when it was colonized by Spanish settlers. The Indians that already lived in South America were taken over by the Spanish settlers and forced into slavery and Chritianity. Many of the Indians suffered death as well from European disease.

"And Indians continued to die in appalling numbers, diseased from smallpox and brutalized by those who depended on their labor." (Colonial Latin America)
"And in these two sermons he insist on two additional slaveries, that of body and soul." (Colonial Latin America)
In this way the Spanish settlers enslaved the Indians with their body by forcing them into slave labor, and through their souls by forcing them into Christianity.