Wednesday, August 25, 2010
Howard Zinn's book starts out by destroying what everyone thinks of Christopher Colombus. Reading about his cruel enslavement of the natives suprised me. I knew he forced thm to be slaves but I didn't know that he was searching for gold. He forced them to find something that wasn't even on the Island of modern day Haiti. Many of the natives died and some got so depressed and miserable that they were killing their own babies. It was only after almost wiping out that civilization did he realize that there was no gold on the island.
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Does this change your view of Columbus and if so what is important to teach about him. He did open up the way for the United States to become the United States - he set things in motion, and therefore we look back to him, but how should some of his deeds be taught?
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