The Age of Exploration: Chapter 9, Exercise 3 — Possible Solution
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WHY CONTESTED
The source says modern scholarship accepts his general depiction of colonial
violence as historically accurate, but debates his specific population figures
and his earlier suggestions about African slavery as an alternative labour
source, which he later regretted.

CAREFUL USE
Use him as evidence of what a contemporary observer reported and argued, cite
his figures as his own claims, and check them against other sources.