MpwedjbUzm1sr50suo1_r1_1280.jpg (JPEG Image, 1280 × 1597 pixels) Christopher Columbus was awful (but this other guy was not) Sources: All of the information in this essay came from A People's History of the United States, by Howard Zinn, and Lies My Teacher Told Me, by James W. Loewen, both of which uses primary sources such as eyewitness accounts, journal entries, and letters from Christopher Columbus himself. A very important note about Bartolomé de las Casas and the African slave trade This issue keeps coming up and, despite my footnotes, I keep seeing commentary about it so I'm going to address it here.
Initially, Bartolomé de las Casas advocated the use of African slaves instead of native labor. I soon repented and judged myself guilty of ignorance. I know that the discovery of the New World means a lot of different things to a lot of different cultures. But please, oh please do not call it Columbus Day. Less than a year after the publication of this comic, Columbus Day was renamed to Indigenous People's Day in Seattle. Worldview-large.jpg (JPEG Image, 1100 × 777 pixels) - Scaled (78. More Proof That History Isn’t Made Up Solely Of Old, Straight, White Men. 4 Minutes Of Animation Guaranteed To Put Your Life In Perspective. Every day the same dream - molleindustria.