One purpose that is served by including examples in the article of Spaniards' cruelty is <u>to suggest that the Spaniards treated the Taino no differently than they treated other people they encountered</u>
According to the given excerpt, the author narrates the massive slave raids that Columbus launched and got almost two thousand slaves that he shipped to Spain.
We are told from the narration that the slaves that were not shipped to Spain were free to be taken by anyone that wished to.
