Was Christopher Columbus Guilty For Manslaughter?
Christopher Columbus is guilty for manslaughter. In 1492 Columbus sailed here claiming to discover America.
Columbus took advantage of the people he called Indians. They were unclothed people and to him that represented that they had no customs, culture or religion. In his journal he said “I believe that they would become Christians very easily, for it seemed to me that they had no religion.”1 To Columbus the Indians appeared defenseless, easy to trick and conquer because they had no experience in trade and they would be a good profit for him as slaves to sell and use. He thought up ways to have them exploited as well.
In a letter Columbus had sent to his friend Luis de Santangel he wrote “And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of them all I have taken possession for their Highnesses by proclamation and display of the Royal Standard without opposition.”2 He didn’t even stop to think that they were already inhabited and that they were not his to take. …show more content…
On his first day he ordered his men to get 6 Native Americans. He had wrote in his journal that he believed they would be good servants. Throughout his time in the New Land he put Native Americans to work because he believed it would be a good profit. Later on he sent thousands on Taino Indians back to Spain to be sold but many of them died on the way there. The rest that stayed on the island of Hispaniola were put to work searching for gold. There were a only a few hundred Taino Indians left out of the hundreds of thousands of them that were there. Later on the Indians rebelled and any that did rebel, he ordered to kill. Any settlers that came there columbus allowed them to have slaves to work for them, dogs to hunt for them and beautiful Indian
Columbus took advantage of the people he called Indians. They were unclothed people and to him that represented that they had no customs, culture or religion. In his journal he said “I believe that they would become Christians very easily, for it seemed to me that they had no religion.”1 To Columbus the Indians appeared defenseless, easy to trick and conquer because they had no experience in trade and they would be a good profit for him as slaves to sell and use. He thought up ways to have them exploited as well.
In a letter Columbus had sent to his friend Luis de Santangel he wrote “And there I found very many islands filled with people innumerable, and of them all I have taken possession for their Highnesses by proclamation and display of the Royal Standard without opposition.”2 He didn’t even stop to think that they were already inhabited and that they were not his to take. …show more content…
On his first day he ordered his men to get 6 Native Americans. He had wrote in his journal that he believed they would be good servants. Throughout his time in the New Land he put Native Americans to work because he believed it would be a good profit. Later on he sent thousands on Taino Indians back to Spain to be sold but many of them died on the way there. The rest that stayed on the island of Hispaniola were put to work searching for gold. There were a only a few hundred Taino Indians left out of the hundreds of thousands of them that were there. Later on the Indians rebelled and any that did rebel, he ordered to kill. Any settlers that came there columbus allowed them to have slaves to work for them, dogs to hunt for them and beautiful Indian