Christopher columbus and the real history?

Question

okay my father told me that christopher columbus was a slave trader. that when he landed here ( now noted he was not the first or went on a mission to prove that the world was round, despite that i was taught that in school) that when he landed here he enslaved the native americans. is this true? also if it is then why is there a fricking holiday devoted to him? isnt that just celebrating a man who kidnapped, tortured and made people into slaves? i find that disgusting!

Answer 1

yes

Answer 2

Your father is correct.

Concerning slaves:

From the October 12, 1492 entry in his journal he wrote of them, "Many of the men I have seen have scars on their bodies, and when I made signs to them to find out how this happened, they indicated that people from other nearby islands come to San Salvador to capture them; they defend themselves the best they can. I believe that people from the mainland come here to take them as slaves.

The Spread of Syphilis:

There is increasing modern scientific evidence that this voyage also brought syphilis back from the New World. Many of the crew members who served on this voyage later joined the army of King Charles VIII in his invasion of Italy in 1495 resulting in the spreading of the disease across Europe and as many as 5 million deaths.

Answer 3

darkprojectsinc ,,,,,,,,,Your story of  Syphilis:

Is another fabrication of your race.  If Syphilis was prevalent in the America it would have created an ongoing epidemic among the settling population. Since there was on going sexual contact through marriage and rape.

The native population would not have been medically treated. Deaths among the Natives and epidemics would have been reported. That is not the case.

The epidemics were only reported in Europe.  Why do you think that was?

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A new study says it can prove that Syphilis was brought to Europe from the New World.  How can that be when there was no history of syphilis in the New World before Columbus came?

http://www.healthmad.com/Conditions-and-...

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SECRETS OF THE DEAD

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Ecology of Infectious Disease

o Many populations of native Americans were decimated by syphilis in "16th century" AFTER the arrival of Europeans

http://microvet.arizona.edu/Courses/MIC4...

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Answer 4

Yes - Columbus did enslave the natives of the Americas.  See Wiki...

"Before he left Spain on his second voyage, Columbus had been directed by Ferdinand and Isabella to maintain friendly, even loving, relations with the natives. He nevertheless sent a letter to the monarchs proposing to enslave some of the native peoples, specifically the Caribs, on the grounds of their aggressiveness. Although his petition was refused by the Crown, in February 1495 Columbus took 1,600 Arawak (a different tribe) as slaves.   Slavery was practiced widely at that time, amongst many peoples of the world, including some Indians. For the Portuguese — from whom Columbus received most of his maritime training — slavery had resulted in the first financial return on a 75-year investment in Africa.  560 slaves were shipped to Spain; 200 died during the route back to Spain and half of the remainder were ill when they arrived. After legal proceedings, some survivors were released and ordered to be shipped home, others sent by Isabella to be galley slaves. Columbus, desperate to repay his investors, failed to realize that Isabella and Ferdinand did not plan to follow Portuguese policy in this respect. Rounding up the slaves led to the first major battle between the Spanish and the natives in the New World.

Columbus was anxious to pay back dividends to those who had invested in his promise to fill his ships with gold. And since so many of the slaves died in captivity, he developed a plan while in the province of Cicao on Haiti. Columbus imposed a tribute system similar to that of the Aztec on the mainland. The natives in Cicao on Haiti all those above 14 years of age were required to find a certain quota of gold every three months. Upon their return, they would receive tokens that they wore around their necks. Any Indian found without a copper token had their hands cut off and subsequently bled to death.

Why was a holiday named after him??  -- because the Victors write the history books.  He was the first European to "find" America -- that's "why".

The first Columbus Day celebration was held in 1792, when New York City celebrated the 300th anniversary of his landing in the New World.

Many Italian-Americans observe Columbus Day as a celebration of their heritage.  Columbus Day was popularized as a holiday in the United States in 1934, at the behest of the Knights of Columbus (a Catholic fraternal service organization named for the voyager), Congress and President Franklin Delano Roosevelt set aside Columbus Day, October 12, as a Federal holiday.

Answer 5

No offense, but tell your father to read a history book.  

Answer 6

yes it is true and they changed coloumbus day to veterans day...when he first came to Americas more exact in the carribeans he captured the natives bringing them back to Europe but the majority of them always died in the voyages back