User:Calabax/sandbox

[I think the phrase you added, At the end of his first voyage, ... before the sentence, Columbus kidnapped serveral Lucayans ... is misleading, as Columbus did not return to the Bahamas after visiting Cuba. Thus, the Lucayans were captured early in the period when Columbus was in the West Indies.]

[You incorrectly changed, Spanish exploitation of the labor of the natives of Hispaniola rapidly reduced that population to Spanish exploitation rapidly reduced the Lucayan population, which is wrong ("that population" refers back to the closest previous noun phrase, "natives of Hispaniola").]

[You changed, the Spanish began capturing Lucayans in the Bahamas for use as laborers in Hispaniola to the Spanish began enslaving and selling Lucayans in the Bahamas for labor in Hispaniola.]

[The captured Lucayans were not sold in the Bahamas, but were sold in Hispaniola. There is also the argument (which I am uncomfortable with) that the Lucayans were placed into the Encomienda system in Hispaniola, rather than slavery (the fact that some Lucayans were sold to be pearl divers on Cubaqua Island does sound like slavery).]

[I also think we need to be careful about extending descriptions of Taino customs and housing to the Lucayans. Keegan is clear that Lucayan society was less complex than the Taino society on Hispaniola. Unless a reliable source specifically states that cetain aspects of Taino culture were also found in the Lucayan culture, we should be not be adding such to this article, except possibly for purposes of comparison.]