Published in China - Social interactions and entertainment - 01 Nov 2023 13:21 - 3
What Christopher Columbus brought to the new world is not taught in schools.
Columbus' reign of terror is one of the darkest chapters in our history. Surprisingly, Columbus oversaw the sale of native girls into sexual slavery.
Nine- to ten-year-old girls were the most wanted among men. In 1500, Columbus casually wrote about it in his diary. He said, “A hundred castles are as easy to get for a wife as for a farm, and it is very general, and there are many smugglers looking for girls; now there is a demand for nine-to-ten-year-olds.''
He forced these peaceful natives to work in his gold mines until they died of exhaustion. If an "Indian" worker did not deliver his full quota of gold dust before Columbus's deadline, the soldiers cut off his hands and tied them around his neck to send a message. Slavery was so unbearable for these gentle people of the island that at one point a hundred of them committed m suicide. Catholic law forbade the slavery of Christians, but Columbus solved this problem. He simply refused to baptize the natives of Hispaniola.
On his second voyage to the New World, Columbus brought cannons and attack dogs. If a native resisted slavery, his nose or ear would be cut off. If the slaves tried to escape, Columbus burned them alive.
Other times he would send attack dogs to hunt them down, and the dogs would tear off the arms and legs of the natives while they were still alive. If the Spanish ran out of meat to feed the dogs, babies would be killed for food.
Columbus' acts of cruelty were so unspeakable and so legendary—even in his day—that Governor Francisco De Bobadilla arrested Columbus and his two brothers, put them in chains, and sent them to Spain to answer for their crimes against the Arawaks. But the king and queen of Spain, with their treasury full of gold, forgave Columbus and set him free.
One of Columbus' men, Bartolome De Las Casas, was so horrified by Columbus' brutal crimes against the natives that he quit working for Columbus and became a Catholic priest. He described how the Spaniards under Columbus cut off the legs of children who were running away from them to test the sharpness of their blades. According to De Las Casas, the men would bet on who could cut a person in half with one stroke of the sword.
It says that Columbus's men filled people with boiling soap. In one day, De Las Casas witnessed three thousand natives being dismembered, beheaded or raped by Spanish soldiers. "In my eyes, such inhumanities and barbarities have been committed that no age can compare with," De Las Casas wrote. "My eyes have seen those deeds so strange to human nature that I now tremble as I write."
De Las Casas spent the rest of his life trying to protect the helpless natives. But after a while there were no more natives to protect. Experts generally agree that before 1492 the lation of the island of Hispaniola was the first African slave trader in 1505.Support
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