Tim,
 
This "first slaves" theme has taken some interesting twists, hasn't it? But  
I am not certain the people forced into working agricultural fields and locked 
 up at night against their will would make much distinction between the fine  
points of Spanish versus Portuguese versus English forced servitude. Deprived 
of  the rights under which they were born, shipped off to some place they did 
not  know, eating un familiar food, and treated as subhuman can make people 
lose  track of the fine points of the law. But I have passed your comments 
along to  Reekie.
 
Ron May
Legacy 106, Inc.