America: uhhhh yeah, that's why we celebrate him. Duh. Cruel is kinda our thing ya know?
He was literally brought back to Spain in chains.
And later pardoned and made another voyage
I mean yeah, that's how it was back then. He repented like a good Christian and they let him go back again.
They never gave him any of his titles back though.
The neutrality and accuracy of the accusations and investigations of Bobadilla toward Columbus and his brothers have been disputed by historians, given the anti-Italian sentiment of the Spaniards and Bobadilla's desire to take over Columbus's position.
anti-italian sentiment
It is widely disputed that Columbus ever was or was considered an Italian.
Especially since Italy didn't exist for another almost 400 years.
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The most cruel people pushed all responsibility to Columbus who had been helplessly watching their inhumane acts for years. They used him to innocent themselves
Columbus was a slave trader up and down the African coastline before he was sponsored to make his voyage in 1492.
He then enslaved the natives. It was his first response to meeting them. That included child sex slaves. This is an account from Columbus himself talking about how 9 and 10 year old girls were "in high demand"
He forced most of the people he captured to collect gold for him, or die, and then, because he didn't actually have the means to feed the people he enslaved, he forced them to live on grass. Most of them starved to death.
There are accounts of slavers beheading their exhausted slaves rather than go through the effort of releasing them from the chain around their neck.
No, Columbus was a fucking monster, but Italian Americans of the late 1800s to Early 20th century wanted a "hero" so that the racist assholes would stop being racist toward them. So they appropriated Columbus as an Italian and whitewashed his crimes against humanity.
