however, most explorers or conquistidors during the age of exploration often brought, either purposefully or unintentionally, death (through the diseases that they carried that would transfer to the indigenous people who weren't immune) and destruction ( through killing natives for their goods and destroying their environment).
As the issue of slavery arose in the 1840s and 1850s to become the chief ... was not just about slavery; many political causes animated Hoosiers in this period.
