Columbus started slave trade

The whole slave trade myth is that the whole story was given to us in reverse. A mass colony of Africans were not shipped from Africa to America, but the truth is that Black Indians were shipped from America to Europe! They were then shipped from Spain to Africa as commodity for African resources. There was indeed a kidnapping of Africans from Africa to America. Columbus sent word back to the Monarchs of Spain that there were what he referred to in his logs as the people of Queen Sheba.

Columbus kidnapped Arawak Indians along with gold nuggets, exotic birds, and grain. Queen Isabella provided Columbus with seventeen ships, men, cannons, crossbows, guns, and attack dogs for the second voyage. When Columbus returned to the West Haiti and South America in , he not only took raw materials and resources but he abducted women. After a short time the Arawaks resisted Columbus and on March 25, Columbus slaughtered thousands of Arawak natives of men, women, and babies.

Columbus also rounded up Arawaks and shipped them to Spain. Protests at Columbus Day parades, efforts to eliminate him from classroom curricula and calls for changing the federal holiday have all followed.

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This Day In History. History Vault. Recommended for you. Christopher Columbus. Columbus Day The rise of navies, expanding international commerce and the development of the plantation system in the Americas were among the factors that led the Western Europeans to become the greatest slave traders in history. The slave trade in Africa, previously dominated by Arabs who sold slaves in the Mediterranean markets, began to fall under the control of the Europeans during the 15th century.

In , the Portuguese prince, Henry the Navigator, while sailing off the West African coast, was presented 10 slaves by a group of Moors who had captured them.

These slaves, taken to Portugal and Spain, inspired dreams of vast trade profits among some of the more imaginative and unscrupulous of Spanish and Portuguese mariners who proceeded to raid Africa for slaves or to buy them in exchange for trinkets from ambitious Negro rulers who were not above selling their own people. The Spanish and Portuguese slave traders not only transported many hundred of thousands of African slaves to Latin America, but also enslaved much of the Latin American Indian population -- notably the Aztecs, Mayas and Incas -- all of which groups had it should be noted built their own empires on the basis of slave labor.

General Robert E. Slavery is the most uncivilized and evil act perpetuated on any human being. Such and any equation or correlation between General Robert E. Lee and Christopher Columbus with regard to slavery is erroneous, a mischaracterization, a misjudgment and a distortion of factual and historical evidence of this country.

Christopher Columbus was never a slave owner or a slave trader during his lifetime. His discoveries of the Americas was and is the greatest discovery of the world's history.