Christopher Columbus - Criminal or Hero? In my full opinion I believe that Christopher Columbus was a Criminal. One of the reasons why I have this personal thought is because of his ill treatment to the Native Americans. An example would be his first arrival to the Americas, he immediately enslaved seven natives. There forced use was as translators for Columbus and his personal informants of the land, and where gold may be found.
What he found instead were the islands in the Caribbean. All the lands he found were inhabited by wild natives and he claimed them as Spanish territories. This is when the American Holocaust started. When Columbus went on his voyage he tried to make people convert to Catholicism. One tool he used was the reading of the Requerimiento.
The map and an account of the expedition are in the Archivo General de Indias in Seville, Spain 1518: Alonso Alvarez de Pineda first landed on the South West coast of Florida but were attacked by hostile natives Alonso Alvarez de Pineda sailed up the Mississippi River and named it Rio del Espiritu Santo, the River of the Holy Spirit. 1519: Alonso Alvarez de Pineda reached Texas but were continuously attacked by hostile Aztec natives 1519: Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was killed at Chila by the Aztec Indians and they burned two of the ships 1519: The remaining ship returned to Vera Cruz and reported their voyage of discovery to Francisco de Garay. The gruesome death of Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was described. He was flayed and his skin was hung in an Aztec temple as a trophy Alonso Alvarez de Pineda was the first European in Texas By exploring and mapping the Florida coast to the Mississippi River Alonso Alvarez de Pineda verified Ponce de Leon's claim that Florida was not an
Burch told Northup that if he were to tell his true story to another person, he would be killed. When he asserted his status as a free man, Burch beat him violently; Northup finally stopped protesting. Northup was transported with other slaves to New Orleans, Louisiana by ship, where he and other enslaved blacks contracted smallpox and some died. He asked a sympathetic sailor to get a message to his family, which the man did, but they did not know how to find him in Louisiana. Northup was sold by Burch's partner in New Orleans to a planter on a bayou of the Red River, and had several different owners during his 12 years as a slave in Louisiana.
U.S. History Response Paper: Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson By Rowlandson The Narrative of the Captivity and Restoration of Mrs. Mary Rowlandson by Mary Rowlandson, it was some might call, “America’s first best seller”. In the 1600’s Mary arrives in America gain reunion freedom that they didn’t have in England along with twenty thousand other Puritans. Mary was taken captive shortly after they were settled in their villages were burned down and people were murdered by the Native Americans. She believed that the Native Americans or as Mary Rowlandson would call them, “Indians” were used by Satan and God allowed this as punishment to the Puritans for their wrong doing. The narrative starts off with Native Americans that set the colonists houses on fire, killed the Puritans: the well, children, elderly, and sick they took them all into captivity.
The ill-fated colony was almost immediately disrupted by a fight over leadership, during which the slaves revolted and fled the colony to seek refuge among local Native Americans. De Ayllón and many of the colonists died shortly afterwards of an epidemic and the colony was abandoned, leaving the escaped slaves behind on North American soil. In 1565, the colony of Saint Augustine in Florida, founded by Pedro Menendez de Aviles, became the first permanent European settlement in North America. It included an unknown number of free and enslaved Africans that were part of this colonial expedition. The first recorded Africans in British North America (including most of the future United States) arrived in 1619 in Jamestown, Virginia.
Learning there was no gold Columbus went on a “slave raid7”. At this point of the expedition, turning the Arawak’s into slaves seemed to be the only mission going for Columbus. Zinn makes a slight point, Columbus tried to use religion to help justify his actions. Zinn quotes from Columbus’s journal “Let us in the name of the Holy Trinity go on sending all the slaves that can be sold.8" The Arawak’s numbers had rapidly decreased. By 1550 the Arawak’s numbers had gone from two hundred and fifty thousand to five hundred totals.
“La Relacion” and “Of Plymouth Plantation” describe the first encounters between the Native Americans and the Europeans from the Spaniard and English point of view. Many of the similarities these two narratives share include that in both stories when the Europeans steal food from the Indians they use the term “bring away.” This makes it seem like if they had borrowed it or like if God had given it to them. However, if Indians did the same, it would be considered as stealing. One of the few examples include when in “Of Plymouth Plantation” the Europeans find the Indian huts: “...the people were run away and could not be seen. Also there was found more of their corn and of their beans of various colors; the corn and beans they [the English] brought away, purposing to give them [the Indians] full satisfaction when they should meet with any of them…And here is to be noted a special providence from God…”.In both stories, the Indians make the first move towards peace and offer food.
Memoirs and biographies are mostly used to evaluate Brown’s significance. One of the sources used in the essay, To Purge This Land with Blood by Stephen B. Oates, is used to evaluate the origin, purpose, values and limitations. B. Evidence Before Harper’s Ferry, there was a pro-slavery raid on Lawrence, Kansas (also known as Pottawatomie Massacre or Bleeding Kansas) because of the violence against the abolitionists and pro-slavery acts. The proslavery forces were burning towns and murdered a free-state settler named Thomas Barber.1 This led to a disagreement over the land, until James Henry Lane and Charles Robinson drew up a peace treaty and had the free-state men in full possession of the Territory.
1. One thing I learned about William Bradford is that after John Carver died, he was elected governor for many years. Also, Bradford was born on March 19, 1590 in Austerfield. Lastly, I found out that by the age of 18, Bradford joined a group of Separatists that fled from England in fear of prosecution. 2.