Chasteen wrote that n 1493 Pope Alexander VI, while granting Spain the right to colonize the New World, mandated that the indigenous people be converted to Catholicism and didn’t want anyone to be converted into slaves. However, he added a catch that anyone who didn’t want to be converted into Catholicism they would be converted into slaves. More positively, in 1500, Queen Isabella of Spain then said that all Indian would be converted into slave because they were to different from white people and too savage. When she died in 1504, her instruction were still follow by the next reign.) Those who did arrive remained largely in the Vera Cruz area and worked mostly in the sugar cane fields and factories. Perhaps this indicates that the
