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The spaniard enslaved the arawaks by forcing them to find gold, food and pearls for them. A little while after they started brutalizing them and killing them off as if they were ants. The arawaks got sick off it and committed infanticied, meaning, the killed their infants just to releive them from not becoming slaves. They also committed suicide by drinking the piosonous cassava juice

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