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Queen Isabella declares the Indigenous slave trade illegal.

1550

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It will nevertheless continue into the 1700s in all lands colonized by Spain, including in what is today known as California and the U.S. Southwest. However, this is the time period when the Spanish begin to focus on building their African slave trade.