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the mistake with this sort of history of columbus is looking back 500 years with a modern view and attitude. the key to good history is to explore it with a sense of the time the event happened.
for instance, the modern view of rape is no where near the view on it from Spain in the 15th century. so to call Columbus a rapist is not necc. accurate.
slavery, conquest, gold, sex, all need to be fully understood OF THE TIME prior to taking slices of events like this and looking at them from a 2014 north american moral viewpoint.
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