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   From: bw@magik.beanz.net   
      
   Ubiquitous wrote   
      
   > For over a decade, Columbus has been painted as a mass murderer,   
   > committing all sorts of crimes in the New World, including genocide.   
   >   
      
        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   
      
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