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Columbus himself was recorded to have raped a young Caribe woman on his ship!. This makes it very likely that he chose not to act on the rapes because he himself participated in the abuse of the women!.

In fact, his ship started a sex trade with the Taino indians, trading them as slaves to other parts of the world, and Columbus' men who often capture Native women and present them to the crew to rape!. So its no wonder Columbus permitted rape on his ship, as he approved of it himself and took part in it!. His cruelty to the Native Americans was so terrible that many in his colony committed mass suicide to avoid being subject to Columbus' rule!.

It's strange that throughout the years, our view of history has been so obscured that Columbus is considered a national hero while the Caribs are always represented as savage cannibals!. Makes you wonder what other parts of history have been hidden from us!.

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"Gold is most excellent; gold constitutes treasure; and he who has it does all he wants in the world, and can even lift souls up to Paradise!."
-- Christopher Columbus, 1503 letter to the king and queen of Spain!.

"Christopher Columbus not only opened the door to a New World, but also set an example for us all by showing what monumental feats can be accomplished through perseverance and faith!."
--George H!.W!. Bush, 1989 speech

When Columbus and his crew arrived on their second visit to Hispaniola, however, they took captive about two thousand local villagers who had come out to greet them!. Cuneo wrote: "When our caravels… where to leave for Spain, we gathered…one thousand six hundred male and female persons of those Indians, and these we embarked in our caravels on February 17, 1495…For those who remained, we let it be known (to the Spaniards who manned the island's fort) in the vicinity that anyone who wanted to take some of them could do so, to the amount desired, which was done!."

Cuneo further notes that he himself took a beautiful teenage Carib girl as his personal slave, a gift from Columbus himself, but that when he attempted to have sex with her, she "resisted with all her strength!." So, in his own words, he "thrashed her mercilessly and raped her!."

While Columbus once referred to the Taino Indians as cannibals, a story made up by Columbus - which is to this day still taught in some US schools - to help justify his slaughter and enslavement of these people!. He wrote to the Spanish monarchs in 1493: "It is possible, with the name of the Holy Trinity, to sell all the slaves which it is possible to sell…Here there are so many of these slaves, and also brazilwood, that although they are living things they are as good as gold…"

Columbus and his men also used the Taino as sex slaves: it was a common reward for Columbus' men for him to present them with local women to rape!. As he began exporting Taino as slaves to other parts of the world, the sex-slave trade became an important part of the business, as Columbus wrote to a friend in 1500: "A hundred castellanoes (a Spanish coin) are as easily obtained for a woman as for a farm, and it is very general and there are plenty of dealers who go about looking for girls; those from nine to ten (years old) are now in demand!."



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Columbus raped many of the natives and died in disgrace!.Www@QuestionHome@Com

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He is very right and Columbus also killed a bunch of Indians alsoWww@QuestionHome@Com

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