that there was no gold left, the Indians were taken as slave labor on huge estates, known later as ecomiendas” (Howard Zinn, 5). “While the men were sent many miles away to the mines, the wives remained to work the soil, forced into the excruciating job of digging and making thousands of hills for cassava plants” (Howard Zinn,7). “Some historians think those first blacks in Virginia were considered as servants, like the white indentured servants brought from Europe. But the strong probability is…
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