Physical Abuse

  • Stannard, David E. American Holocaust: The Conquest of the New World. New York: Oxford UP, 1993. Google. 2006. Web. 31 Mar. 2017. <https://books.google.com/books/about/American_Holocaust.html?id=RzFsODcGjfcC>.
    • murder
      • “genocide”- compares to Holocaust
      • mothers, pregnant women
      • children
    • disease was “accidental” murder
    • left children as orphaned
      • enslaved orphans
      • killed orphans
  • Christopher Columbus: Hero or Murderer? By: Whitney Dewitt http://campuspages.cvcc.vccs.edu/polis/2003/nonfiction/whitney%20dewitt.amlit.htm
    • “yet in this discovery, he erased the natives inhibiting the land.”
    • Slavery, warfare, and inhumane acts – destroyed a people, a culture, and a land
    • Disrespectful to rights of natives
      • Kidnapped Indians to bring back to Spain (to create fame for himself)
        • Would export them out, 1/3 dead by the time they reached Spain
          • “did not need a compass back to Spain; they could simply follow the bodies of floating Indians who had been tossed overboard when they died” – Bartolome de las Casas
        • Vicious accounts of attacks on Indians reported by a Spaniard traveling with Columbus
          • Canoe with Indians, attacked them, killed one, threw him to water
            • He was not dead yet, caught him and cut his head with an axe
          • Rape of an Indian woman

 

  • Columbus Day? True Legacy: Cruelty and Slavery

http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/columbus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.html

  • Indigenous people had no weapons and were very giving (no criminals)
  • Supervised selling of native girls into sexual slavery (ages 9/10)
  • Forced them to work in the gold mines
  • Slavery so intolerable that 100 of them committed mass suicide
  • Refused to baptize native people
  • Cruel Punishments
    • If native resisted slavery, cut of nose/ear
    • If tried to escacpe, burned them alive
    • Send dogs to hunt them down, dogs fed with Arawak babies
  • Columbus became first African slave trader in 1505
  • Christopher Columbus: Hero or Villain?

http://www.biography.com/news/christopher-columbus-day-facts

  • Enslaved and mutilated native people
    • “They do not carry arms or know them… They should be good servants.”
    • Punished with loss of limb or death if they did not collect enough gold
  • Although started exchange of plants, animals, cultures, ideas, also trade of diseases
  • Christopher Columbus and the New World http://www.nationalreview.com/article/425389/christopher-columbus-and-new-world-mark-antonio-wright
    • “was a slaver, a capitalist, and a murderer of millions who embarked on a voyage motivated only by greed, which brought European imperialism to the shores of the “New World and laid waste the ancient indigenous peoples there.”
    • Blamed for horrors of the Columbian Exchange
    • New world suffered smallpox, starvation, the cruel subjugation of the indigenous peoples
    • “was in fact the pioneer of oppression, racism, slavery, rape, theft, vandalism, extermination, and ecological desolation”
  • Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism Clarke, John H. Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism. Buffalo, N.Y: Eworld Inc, 2011. Print.
    • Relates Columbus’s actions in new world to slave and capitalist culture
    • Blames Columbus for African slave trade
    • Explanation from Dr. Clarke to Africans of why the trade of African slaved happened, how it happened, and what we should do so this never happens again
    • “The Columbus anniversary is a celebration of mass murder, slavery, and conquest.”
    • “Slavery and the slave trade was the first international investment in capital. It was the first large scale investment that was intercontinental.”
  • Thief, Slave Trader, Murderer: Christopher Columbus and Caribbean Population Decline https://muse.jhu.edu/article/235622
    • “During the sugarcane plantation days, slaves worked at the grinding mills — rollers that crushed the cane. Fingers or hands caught in the machine could pull a full-sized adult into the machine, so it was one man’s job to stand by with a hatchet, to chop off an arm if it was caught in the rollers, as happened periodically.”
    • Would cut off hands if the natives didn’t bring enough gold.
    • Brought slaves from Africa when the Indian slaves started to die.
  • Desai, Christina M. “The Columbus Myth: Power and Ideology in Picturebooks About Christopher Columbus.”Children’s Literature in Education. Vol. 45, no 3, Sept 2014. pp 179-96. EBSCOhost. Web. 10 Mar. 2017.
    • Columbus saw the natives as commodities to be used and traded
    • “He subjugated, then enslaved the indigenous people to satisfy his hunger for gold. He punished natives who failed to fulfill his unrealistic gold quotas by chopping off their hands.”