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Not necessarily. Most of the allegations brought against him involved his treatment of the natives.
Cortez may have very well been a conqueror, and Pizzaro may've been a particularly brutal conqueror. Columbus' actions, however; went far beyond any of that. He didn't "conquer" Hispaniola, so much as himself up as the reigning "Kurtz" in his own private heart of darkness.
The Spaniards might not have necessarily been opposed to slavery, and they certainly weren't opposed to conquest. However, that being said, they were not exactly orcs dead set on wanton cruelty and destruction either. Columbus crossed well over the line even by their standards.
I have been reading up today and the more I read the more I tend to think that you got him dead on.