A nasty piece of work, no doubt about it.
Worth mentioning though that it wasn't just Bartolomé who found his methods
objectionable. The accusations of brutality were investigated and Columbus was
put in chains and imprisoned and eventually sent back to Spain. After some
favours were called
"Many in the West will demonstrate their fierce originality and intellectual
independence today by condemning Christopher Columbus using the same shopworn
cliches they used last year. For those of a different bent, I recommend Samuel
Eliot Morison’s Admiral of the Ocean Sea: A Life of Christophe
Whoa, really a different version of things. I guess most of our history books
need rewriting - probably all over the world, given how we humans like "nice"
stories.
---In FairfieldLife@yahoogroups.com, wrote:
...read this excellently-researched strip by The Oatmeal first. Even when it
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