CW: Anti-Semitic violence and the enslavement and genocide of indigenous peoples in the Americas, mention of torture, mutilation, and suicide.
In 1492 Columbus sailed the ocean blue or at least that's how the rhyme goes. It's time to dive in to Columbus' place in the history of capitalism, why Spain and Portugal were at the forefront of European maritime expeditions, and how they carved up the world.
Works Cited:
La caída de Cristóbal Colón: El juicio de Bobadilla translated by Isabel Aguirre, (Estudios: 2006)
An Indigenous People's History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, (Beacon Press: 2014)
1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles Mann, (Vintage: 2006)
1493: Uncovering the New World Columbus Created by Charles Mann, (Vintage: 2012)
Christopher Columbus and the Enslavement of the Amerindians by Jalil Sued-badillo from Displacements and Transformations in Caribbean Cultures edited by Lizabeth Paravisini-Gebert and Ivette Romero-Cesareo, (University Press of Florida: 2008)
https://gsp.yale.edu/case-stud..."Encomienda or Slavery? The Spanish Crown's Choice of Labor Organization in Sixteenth-Century Spanish America" from The Journal of Economic History, Vol. 55, Issue 4, December 1995 by Timothy J. Yeager
