XPost: alt.fan.rush-limbaugh, alt.politics.usa   
   From: js@phendrie.con   
      
   On 10/12/2021 6:38 AM, David Hartung wrote:   
   > On 10/12/21 8:03 AM, Mitchell Holman wrote:   
   >> Ubiquitous  wrote in news:v7WdnYgL3q1ZyPj8nZ2dnUU7-   
   >> amdnZ2d@giganews.com:   
   >>   
   >>>   
   >>>   
   >>> De las Casas never mentions Columbus committing any crimes, and De las   
   >>> Casas did not shrink from accusing anyone.   
   >>   
   >>   
   >>       Wrong.   
   >>   
   >> "In May 1498, Columbus sailed west across the   
   >> Atlantic for the third time. He visited Trinidad   
   >> and the South American mainland before returning   
   >> to the ill-fated Hispaniola settlement, where   
   >> the colonists had staged a bloody revolt against   
   >> the Columbus brothers’ mismanagement and brutality.   
   >> Conditions were so bad that Spanish authorities   
   >> had to send a new governor to take over. Meanwhile,   
   >> the native Taino population, forced to search for   
   >> gold and to work on plantations, was decimated   
   >> (within 60 years after Columbus landed, only a few   
   >> hundred of what may have been 250,000 Taino were   
   >> left on their island). Christopher Columbus was   
   >> arrested and returned to Spain in chains."   
   >>   
   >> https://www.history.com/topics/exploration/christopher-columbus   
   >   
   > You hold Christopher Columbus accountable for his brothers' actions?   
      
   They were all in it together and all in agreement on how to run the island.    
   The   
   Spanish authorities evidently knew that.   
      
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