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Originally Posted by CliffFletcher
The regions colonizied the British were much lower density that those of the Spanish or Portuguese - there were round 5 million indigenous people in North America when Columbus landed. 90+ per cent of the population decline in the Americas post-Columbus was from disease, which isn't something you can attach some kind of moral culpability for. Estimates for indigenous people killed in the various Indian Wars in what today is the U.S. and Canada is around 50,000.
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Don't know where the number came from, but it is still more than 18.