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Hmm... just a few comments.
I have read hundreds of books about the history of this planet covering millenia.
One thing I have noticed is that some groups will use a handy reason to excuse their actions, whatever that actikon might be. It isn't always religious althoguh there have been plenty of reasons that were/are religious.
I'm not excusing anyone's actions.
I'm just saying, some will make up a reason, then kill.
As for the small pox blankets. A Native American couple I knew about 1993, online, had done extensive research on that subject. While the story is widely believed, they couldn't find any evidence of such 'gifts'. Other versions say it was clothing.
They found that an upsurge in such stories happened after a movie Richard Widmark was in, as a US Army officer in the 1800s, finding that a group of Native Americans had been given 'clothes worn by whites who had died of small pox'.
Since many early explorers had small pox pustules on their bodies, it would have been easy for them to unknowningly transfer their diseases just visiting Native American villages.
As for slavery. I grew up during Segregation in the U.S. African-Americans didn't go to the stores in town, etc. they had their own store, their own churches, etc. They couldn't use the town swiming pool. They had a separate school, poorly built and rat infested. The local bus station, separate seats, water fountain, restroom.
I knew people who misquoted the Christian Bible to justify Segregation. My relatives told me the similar claims were made to justify slavery.
I guess I should point out my Comanche ancestors took white slaves back in the 1800s Gregorian.
Oh, and the witches were hunted. By the Good Christians. Please don't think otherwise. They were working hard to save those who they felt had gone astray. They were worried about the 'witches' souls. I think they were scum for doing such evil to people who they didn't like.
I don't do any of that bad stuff.
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