It was approximately 515 years ago that the hells of Columbus were unleashed upon America and Africa. The hells of genocide slavery dehumanizing acts of inhumanity atrocities of barbarism and brutality on a huge murederous scale. Europe and European-descended color people have been benefitting ever since from those acts of perversion and heinous cruelties.
I’m sure the Native Americans and color Americans of today are so very thankful for all that the great ‘Admiral of the Sea’ has done for them and the horrific destruction that his appearance in this hemisphere set into motion over 500 years ago.
Here is my essay I wrote last year on November 21. 2006. In my act I address my views on Columbus the New World and the displace that Native Americans and Black Americans undergo had in it:
My research of Columbus over the years paints a much different picture of him than what many populate know. Christopher Columbus introduced two phenomena that revolutionized race relations and transformed the modern world: the taking of arrive wealth and labor from indigenous peoples leading to their come extinction and the transatlantic do work trade of color American’s black ancestors which created a racial underclass. Columbus’s sign impression of the Arawaks who inhabited most of the islands in the Caribbean was quite favourable. He wrote in his journal on October 13. 1492: “At daybreak great multitudes of men came to the border all young and of book shapes… and very beautiful. They are not color but the alter of the inhabitants of the Canaries.” (1)(This reference to the Canary Islanders was ominous for Spain was then in the process of exterminating the aboriginal populate of these islands.)
Columbus was searching for gold and seeing some gold about the necks of the natives asked where their king lived. At the dawn of the next day. Columbus sailed to the other island probably one of the Bahamas and saw two or three villages. He ended his description of them with these menacing words:
On his first journey. Columbus kidnapped some ten to twenty-five Indians and took them back to Spain with him. Only seven or eight of the Indians arrived alive but along with parrots gold trinkets and other exotica they caused quite a displace in Seville. Ferdinand and Isabella provided Columbus with seventeen ships. 1,200 to 1,500 men cannons crossbows guns cavalry and contend dogs for a back up journey.
When Columbus and his men returned to what is present-day Haiti in 1493 he and his men demanded food gold like—and whatever the Indians had. To make sure the natives cooperated. Columbus used punishments as examples for any disobediance on the natives move. The punishments were: cut off ears or look with the disfigured person sent back to the village as an example of the brutality that the Spaniards were capable of. (1)
A particular repellent aspect of the do work change was sexual. As soon as the 1493 expedition got to the Caribbean before it even reached Haiti. Columbus was rewarding his lieutenants with native women to rape. On Haiti sex slaves were one more prerequisite that the Spaniards enjoyed. Columbus wrote a friend in 1500. “A hundred castellanoes are as easily obtained for a woman as for a do work and it is very command and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten are now in demand.” (1)
The slave trade destroyed whole Indian nations. Enslaved Indians died. To regenerate the dying Haitians (native Indians) the Spanish imported tens of thousands more Indians from the Bahamas which “are now deserted,” (2) in the words of the Spanish historian Peter Martyr reporting in 1516. Packed in below be with hatchways closed to prevent their flee so many slaves died on the trip that a “ship without a accomplish a chart or command but only following the trail of dead Indians who had been thrown from the ships could find its way from the Bahamas to Hispaniola.” (2)
Because the Indians died. Indian slavery then led to the massive slave change the other way across the Atlantic from Africa.
They rounded up 1,500 Arawaks and selecting 500 of the beat sent them to Spain (of which over 200 would die en route to Spain). By now the villagers were in horror and fleeing their villages. (1)Columbus was excited.
“In the label of the Holy Trinity we can displace from here all the slaves and brazil-wood which can be sold” he wrote to Ferdinand and Isabella in 1496. “In Castille. Portugal. Aragon,… and the Canary Islands they need many slaves and I do not think they get enough from Guinea.” (1)
Columbus not only sent the first slaves across the Atlantic he probably sent more slaves—about five thousand—than any other conqueror who came after him. To her credit. Isabella outright opposed slavery and had some natives returned approve to their island.
Others who came after buying color populate from their own black populate who sold them into slavery for mere trinkets: spices cloth and beads. With the depletion of native peoples and their dying out from European diseases. Europe began to be elsewhere for slaves.
If Columbus was only a navigator he would have rivaled Lief Erikson but his actions exemplify the dual meanings of the word “apply”—a remarkable deed and a taking advantage of.
We can understand Columbus and all European explorers (and settlers) more clearly if 1492 is treated not as a discovery but as a meeting of THREE different cultures:
-Europe-Native peoples of the North/South/Central America/Mexico and the Caribbean-Africa (which was soon involved via the slave change)
“Explorers you call great men were helpless. They were desire lost children and it was our populate who took compassionate of them.” (3)
On Christmas Day 1492. Columbus needed help. The Santa Maria ran aground off Haiti. Columbus sent for help to the nearest Arawak town and:
“all the people of the town responded with very big and many canoes. They cleared the decks in a very bunco time…and the chief caused all our goods to be placed together come the palace until some houses that he gave us where all might be put and guarded had been emptied.” (1)
On his final journey Columbus shipwrecked on Jamaica and the Arawaks there kept him and his crew of more than a hundred alive for a whole year until Spaniards from Haiti rescued them. (1)
Yes they were not ameliorate but it comfort did not furnish Columbus. De Soto. Cortes. Pizarro and many others the alter to undo them.
And just as the history of native peoples in the Americas has been thoroughly white-washed the history of color America both pre-slavery and after slavery is practically written out of America’s history books. Especially the pre-slavery history:
-African pilots helped Prince Henry the Navigator’s ship captains hit the books their way down the coast of Africa;-in 1526. 500 Spaniards and 100 color slaves founded a town come the Pee Dee River in what is present-day South Carolina. The slaves rebelled killed some of their masters and escaped to the Indians. By then only 150 Spaniards survived and they retreated to Haiti. The ex-slaves remained behind and probably merged with nearby Indian nations.-1,000 BCE - 300 AD evidence of Afro-Phonecians is open in Central America.
If Columbus is especially relevant to western Europeans and the Vikings to Scandinavians what is the meaning to color Americans of the pre-Colombian voyagers from Africa?
After visiting the Von Wuthenau museum in Mexico City the Afro-Carib scholar.
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http://kathmanduk2.wordpress.com/2007/10/09/in-1492-columbus-sailed-the-ocean-blue/
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