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Oct 11, 2021 · In an attempt to further thwart the celebration of this “holiday,” we at ICTMN have outlined eight misnomers and bloody, greedy, sexually perverse and horrendous atrocities committed by Columbus...
Oct 2, 2018 · Share. Subscribe. Cookie Policy. Ahead of the now controversial holiday Columbus Day, it is worthwhile to examine the myths and mysteries surrounding that much vaunted explorer who in fourteen hundred and ninety-two went and sailed the ocean blue: Christopher Columbus.
Oct 14, 2019 · Columbus was the first explorer to discover America. False: Scholars believe it was Viking Leif Erickson who first came from overseas to America. In fact, they believe Columbus wasn’t even the ...
- He was a violent man. Las Casas spoke of Columbus’ “sweetness and benignity.” Far from being a violent man, he often got into difficulties because he would be indulgent — toward natives and Spaniards — and would then take extreme measures against both when things got out of hand.
- He committed genocide. There was no “genocide” during these early voyages, though many natives died from unfamiliar diseases and clashes between two very different cultures.
- He instituted the slave trade. Columbus was not interested in the slave trade; his goal was to set up a trading post or, later, an agricultural colony on the island of Hispaniola, today’s Dominican Republic and Haiti.
- He had only worldly interests. People often claim that Columbus was motivated by “God, gold and glory,” but assume God was just a cover for worldly interests.
Oct 10, 2011 · 1 of 5. It’s Columbus Day – a time when faulty lore about the “discoverer of America” abounds. The myths surrounding the epic voyages of Christopher Columbus are as plentiful as the riches...
Recently, more complete and more honest accounts of Columbus’ life have led Americans to question how the U.S. should remember Columbus, and how it should disentangle the unvarnished truths about Columbus from the mythology that has developed around him in America’s collective memory.
Oct 14, 2020 · The myth of Columbus owes a great deal to the 1828 book History of the life and travels of Christopher Columbus. Written by Washington Irving, the author of The Legend of Sleepy...
