http://sourcebooks.fordham.edu/source/columbus1.asp
“Weapons they have none, nor are acquainted with them, for I showed them swords which they grasped by the blades, and cut themselves through ignorance.”
Abstract: Christopher Columbus took notice of the incapabilities the Natives had and used it against them to gain power by establishing leadership over them and controlled them in ways the Natives did not understand.
https://ows.edb.utexas.edu/site/christopher-columbus/bartolome-de-las-casas-ii
- “So that they are good to be ordered about, to work and sow, and do all that may be necessary, and to build towns, and they should be taught to go about clothed and to adopt our customs.”
- “In three or four months, when I was there, more than seventy thousand children, whose fathers and mothers had been sent to the mines, died of hunger.”
Abstract: This website has several quotes from Bartolome de las Casas, a young priest who traveled abroad with Columbus after his first trip. This site gives some statistics and also Columbus’ initial thoughts on the land and people he just discovered.
http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/01-col.html
Abstract: the article described specifically the environment and Natives culture of the island where Columbus arrived. In the passage, It also talked about the process of navigation. Moreover, the article also describe many different and surprising animal species and the different scenes where Columbus and his men saw.