What might have happened to the Taino of Haiti is that the Spaniards could no longer make them slaves................so they might have moved them off the island....................and resorted to bringing in African slaves...................at 1st they might not have even wanted to bring Africans here to the Americas.....................at 1st they did enslave the Tainos................in the documentary narrated by Kevin Costner...............many Tainos committed suicide b/c the labor the Spaniards forced on them was so difficult.....................the Indian ocean slave trade was thousands of years old.............from Zanzibar island..........particularly to Arabia..........Pakistan,,,,,,,India.........etc..............so they probably would have preferred continuing to use Indians..............but maybe they stopped cooperating................and they knew what had worked in the Middle East to India with negroid slaves and probably had some of their own back in the Europe of the 1400s...........that they resorted to that..........

Given the dramatic collapse of the indigenous society, and the emergence of a population blending Spanish, Indian and African attributes, one might be tempted to declare the Taíno extinct. Yet five centuries after the Indians’ fateful meeting with Columbus, elements of their culture endure—in the genetic heritage of modern Antilleans, in the persistence of Taíno words and in isolated communities where people carry on traditional methods of architecture, farming, fishing and healing.

For more than a year, I searched for these glimpses of Taíno survival, among living descendants in New York City and dusty Caribbean villages, in museums displaying fantastic religious objects created by long-dead artists, in interviews with researchers who still debate the fate of the Taíno