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Try https://letmegooglethat.com/?q=Christopher+Columbus+genocide...

I'm not being facetious in giving you a let-me-Google-that-for-you link (normally when one does that it's to sort of hint at someone they are too lazy to look up a technical question).

But in this case it's an honest invitation to do some basic research yourself. If I gave you specific links it could be cherry-picked links to highly skewed content to people with ideological axes to grind.

History (outside of government-sponsored and civic-minded textbooks) tends to be pretty grim and filled with bloodshed and injustice and this is no exception.

Your original comment doesn't state it's position clearly. I'm parsing it as a kind of exasperated disbelief in someone perceived to be making a ridiculous claim.

If instead this is a debate about the exact meaning and semantics of the use of the word 'genocide' feel free to ignore this.

Edit: updated link




Most, if not all, of the anti-Columbus talk I've seen is from Howard Zinn's "A People's History of the United States".

If I recall, that book's source was the writings of a Columbus critic of the time (a monk I think?)

Are there any other sources that discuss Columbus and his interactions with native populations?


There is an historical abstract from his own (lost) journals extant which casts some light on this.




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