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I'm judging Columbus by the standards of his own day. Spain ordered Columbus not to take slaves from the Caribbean - they wanted to colonize the land and conver
by krapp 2y ago
I'm judging Columbus by the standards of his own day. Spain ordered Columbus not to take slaves from the Caribbean - they wanted to colonize the land and convert the locals, but Columbus enslaved the population anyway, and shipped them to Spain by the boatload. And his governorship of the place was so brutal and cruel he was arrested and taken away in chains. Contemporary accounts by missionaries judge him the same way.
- davoneus 2y agoI wouldn't believe any missionaries statements of fact. After all, their history is as bad or worse than Columbus wrt the treatment of the native peoples in the Americas.
- atlas_hugged 2y agoMuch thuggery. Much shifty. Much euphemism. Much denialism.
- Wytwwww 2y ago> their history is as bad or worse than Columbus Really? That seems like an absurd statement.