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Earliest sex trafficking/sexual slavery documented as a strategy of colonization.
Date: 1492
Sexual violence
Colonization
Europe
Indigenous
Original manuscripts and journals on the colonization of the Caribbean point to the abuse of young Indigenous girls as part of the violence of first contact.
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