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Originally Posted by nguirado
I started Risen, but stopped after the allegation that the townspeople spread small pox amongst natives. I know it's a fiction book, but many people take that slander seriously.
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The claims that smallpox was deliberately used as a genocidal weapon on a massive scale are overblown, but its use as a weapon was not unknown, and it seems indeed to have been used against Native Americans.
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