If that wasn’t bad enough, his treatment of them after being granted control of the region was so abhorrent that the Spanish crown, itself hardly a bastion of humane treatment and sentiment, stripped him of his position on grounds of cruelty.
My understanding is that he was stripped of his position because of what he did to his European subjects and because his rival wanted to take his place, and that hardly anyone back in Europe gave a shit about his abuse of native people. Is that not correct?
His rival wanting to take his place was definitely part of it, but his abuses against the native peoples were recounted in great and horrific detail as core accusations of his unfitness for the position of governor.
My understanding is that he was stripped of his position because of what he did to his European subjects and because his rival wanted to take his place, and that hardly anyone back in Europe gave a shit about his abuse of native people. Is that not correct?
His rival wanting to take his place was definitely part of it, but his abuses against the native peoples were recounted in great and horrific detail as core accusations of his unfitness for the position of governor.