>According to the report, Columbus once punished a man found guilty of stealing corn by having his ears and nose cut off and then selling him into slavery. Testimony recorded in the report claims that Columbus congratulated his brother Bartolomé on "defending the family" when the latter ordered a woman paraded naked through the streets and then had her tongue cut out for suggesting that Columbus was of lowly birth.
>The document also describes how Columbus put down native unrest and revolt; he first ordered a brutal crackdown in which many natives were killed and then paraded their dismembered bodies through the streets in an attempt to discourage further rebellion.
>>1235407
Yea sounds like a royal cunt, even for those times.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=mr_eZSKTEQA
>Columbus's treatment of the Hispaniola native was brutal, his soldiers killed and enslaved with impunity at every landing. When Columbus fell ill in 1495, "what little restraint he had maintained over his men disappeared as he went through a lengthy period of recuperation. The troops went wild, stealing, killing, raping, and torturing natives, trying to force them to divulge the whereabouts of the imagined treasure-houses of gold." According to de Las Casas, 50,000 natives perished during this period. Upon his recovery, Columbus organized his troops' efforts, forming a squadron of several hundred heavily armed men and more than twenty attack dogs. The men tore across the land, killing thousands of sick and unarmed natives. Soldiers would use their captives for sword practice, attempting to decapitate them or cut them in half with a single blow.
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=fYTXRDtYzYc
>>1235407
You don't even have to post this stuff. We all acknowledge he deserves credit for his expedition but nobody really denies anymore he did all kind of fucked up stuff. Its not something historians are in major disagreement over.
Sounds fucking based tbqh.
>>1235477
But the Aztecs did it in ignorance thinking it was correct. Columbus knew murder and torture was inhumane and still did it
>>1235501
but according to the video columbus is ignorant too
>>1235407
the man knew what he was doing
honestly, i don't think any shit he did, no matter the severity, can really condemn him, his voyage is far, far too influential to history as a whole. I mean, he literally facilitated the creation of a whole new ethnicity of people
>>1235524
Sure he can be condemned as a monstrous caricature of a person while still having his voyage be acknowledged as important.
