'A Historical Account Of Columbus Controversy'

A Complete Change “A journey which changes everything.” In 1620, people from England arrived to America in the look out for religious freedom.After a long 66 days and many difficult situations, they made it to the land which was going to become their home. Once they arrived,they came upon Native Americans who they called “savages”. They later established a “friendship” and signed a peace treaty,which really only benefited the Europeans. After the peace treaty was signed the Europeans started to colonize. Colonialism changed the lives of the Native Americans as they were exposed to diseases, loss of land, and enslavement. As many Europeans were arriving to the New World they were bringing many diseases with them,which greatly affected the lives of the Natives. In a Historical Account by William Bradford we are presented with the fact on how diseases were brought to America.Bradford writes, “...this young man with a grievous disease,of which he died”(6). Throughout the voyage there was many diseases going around
The Native Americans were losing everything they had,there was a large amount of people that had already died because of the disease and now they had friends and family being used as slaves. It was an absolute disrespect to the Natives as they were promised in a treaty that there will be peace but instead there was frustration and sadness. The physical and mental abuse just continued and