‘Not to mention those wonderful and peaceful Native Americans who routinely enslaved those less powerful than them.’
a history of the Iroquois Nation should be required reading...
The Iroquois were not at all bashful at engaging in extreme sadism if you were someone they took a dislike to.
I read a bit about them in Samuel Eliot Morison’s excellent book: “The Great Explorers”.
In the same book (I think) he talked about Giovanni da Verizzano (The Verizzano Bridge in NY) and how he was exploring the East coast of North America (heading South) and went ashore in Guadaloupe by himself, and was set upon, slain, and gleefully eaten warm and raw in full sight of the men on his ship by Caribe natives. They were just out of cannon range, and nobody could do anything about it.
Maybe that tribe needed to be erased.
It also explained why may indigenous Americans Columbus encountered wanted to be friends with him, because they were scared to death of the Caribes, and for good reason.