While British colonialism came to dominate in North America, the initial thrusts were made by countries like Spain and Portugal. It explains the pattern of colonialism in the Americas through the development of capitalism. But his book is more than a simple description of the genocide against indigenous peoples and African slaves. It is a deliberately provocative conclusion and the tragedies that resulted from European colonialism is horrifically documented in Horne's book. Thus, even when enslaved Africans chose suicide, which they were often forced to do, it would be follow to suggest that enslavers were guiltless. Though disease spread by these interlopers is often trotted out to explain the spectacular downturn in the fortunes of indigenous Americans, genocide - in virtually every meaning of the term, including volitional acts by invading settlers - is the proximate cause of this towering mountain of cadavers. In the introduction to his latest book historian Gerald Horne makes clear the consequences of European settlement in the Americas:
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