Reddit reviews Other Slavery, The

https://www.amazon.com/Other-Slavery-Uncovered-Enslavement-America/dp/1536661422

I very, very much suggest you read this book if you really want to know what I am talking about. Much of the devastation brought upon the natives was done by individual explorers and slavers and marauders who never put their allegiance to a crown or had connections to any major organization, hence why their stories weren't told the same way Cortez or Columbus's was. As early as 1620, there were tens of thousands of traders, slavers, and marauders in just the Caribbean. We only ever hear the stories of the (relatively) innocent settlers, who often had contracts with the various crowns they were sent by. They weren't there to pillage and enslave and steal (slavery of the natives was banned by the spanish crown for the most part), they were there to settle and live.

Its also important to note that there was a massive interest to wipe away atrocities and massacres during the colonial era. There is a reason you only typically hear about the 'good' settlers, and never the thousands of slavers and pillagers.