Source: The King?s Coffer (ID83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID32)
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1490-01-01 - 1499-12-31
The first European slavers probably reached FL
The first European slavers probably reached the peninsula with their pathogens and iron chains in the 1490s.
...As there is little basis for estimating the population at contact, there is no way of knowing what the initial demographic loss may have been, nor its dislocating effects. [Note 53: Few [researchers] attempt to estimate population at contact.]
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