Because the were allowed to live in Spanish towns as equals
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the native Americans on the land had to work for the new owner, and the colonist agreed to house and feed them
European enslavement of Native Americans existed with the Spanish from the earliest days on the Caribbean islands they first settled.
the spanish had a affected the way the natives live and work. they torured them till they did what the spainards wanted in a history text book if you think im wrong!!! they enslaved them......as above
Spain was the first European country to import African slaves to the Americas. After Christopher Columbus discovered the New World, the Spanish started bringing Africans as slave labor for their plantations and mines. Juan de Cordoba was the first Spaniard to send African slaves to the New World.
Of course there were and still are "Black Indians," that is people of African and American Indian heritage. This combination has been with us since the time of the Spanish in Florida and was accelerated by the practice of slavery by certain American Indian tribes in the south. It is estimated that 80% of African-Americans have Indian heritage.