Welcome To History Uncensored podcast with me Seth Michels Today we are going to be adding a new outlet to the channel Histories Idiots. This is the part we get to have fun and demolish someone’s good name, they may have made some bad choices, they may have done some good. One thing is for certain they were all Idiots!I had a lot of choices to go through when selecting my idiot for this first episode. So here is what I am going to do, I’m going to kick a horse that is almost dead! It is important to remember when exploring history to consider the source, their statements and examine them with keen interest. That horse, the man we have a holiday after the one the only Cristoforo Columbo, Cristobal Colon’ or otherwise known as Christopher Syphilis(probably his actual middle name) Columbus the psychopath from Spain. This document is the from the journal of Columbus in his voyage of 1492. The meaning of this voyage is highly contested. On the one hand, it is witness to the tremendous vitality and verve of late medieval and early modern Europe - which was on the verge of acquiring a world hegemony. On the other hand, the direct result of this and later voyages was the virtual extermination, by ill-treatment and disease, of the vast majority of the Native inhabitants, and the enormous growth of the transatlantic slave trade. It might not be fair to lay the blame at Columbus' feet, but since all sides treat him as a symbol, such questions cannot be avoided. The founder of the new world and…. For that answer, you will just have to listen. Where to start, where to start? How about a few quotes attributed to the great man himself! They … brought us parrots and balls of cotton and spears and many other things, which they exchanged for the glass beads and hawks’ bells. They willingly traded everything they owned…. They were well-built, with good bodies and handsome features…. They do not bear arms, and do not know them, for I showed them a sword, they took it by the edge and cut themselves out of ignorance. They have no iron. Their spears are made of cane… . They would make fine servants…. With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want. Gold is a treasure, and he who possesses it does all he wishes to in this world, and succeeds in helping souls into paradise. Oh, that was nice Chris, very forward thinking. I know when I get to a tropical paradise my first thought is to enslave the population as well. Especially with all the conquistadoring I’ve been doing lately.While I was in the boat, I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me. When I had taken her to my cabin she was naked—as was their custom. I was filled with a desire to take my pleasure with her and attempted to satisfy my desire. She was unwilling, and so treated me with her nails that I wished I had never begun. But—to cut a long story short—I then took a piece of rope and whipped her soundly, and she let forth such incredible screams that you would not have believed your ears. Eventually we came to such terms, I assure you, that you would have thought that she had been brought up in a school for whores. So very Christian of you to do all that ethnic cleansing Chris, we really appreciate it. Who needs the family’s when you have disease death and slavery? Not I, a humble random Caribbean population armed with nothing more than cane spears. In his book The Devastation of the Indies. Bartolome de las Casas, the priest who accompanied Columbus on his conquest of Cuba, detailed the abuse and murder of the native population:Endless testimonies . .. prove the mild and pacific temperament of the natives…. But our work was to exasperate, ravage, kill, mangle and destroy… And the Christians, with their horses and swords and pikes began to carry out massacres and strange cruelties against them. They attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor pregnant women nor women in --- Support this podcast: https://anchor.fm/seth-michels66/support

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