Christopher Columbus Quotes
They would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want.
Referring to the Arawak natives he found when he landed in the "new world—San Salvador:"
Christopher Columbus, 1451-1506, Italian Explorer, Ship's Log
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As a result of the programs and philosophy he expounded, Leontiev joyously predicted:
Miller was the first Black American admitted to a Graduate Program—Johns Hopkins—in Mathematics
Referring to Black Congressman Julian Bond: Louis Eugene Walcott
The Ndebele were a warrior caste that had captured the land of the Shona and enslaved them. When the whites came there was antipathy to the Ndebele and great fear that they would have to farm and do manual labor, things which they had always required their slaves to do. At the same time the king was a vicious despot who killed many of his subjects at his whim and who was resented even by the Ndebele. The king took poison rather than be captured by the whites. Ironically, the king anticipated the great dissatisfaction of the Ndebele when they could no longer own slaves and had to do their own manual labor.
That is exactly what happened. The Spanish raped and interbred with the native women in the Americas and it was their offspring who ended up dominating South and Central American societies.
John Sutter was an immigrant to California from Switzerland where he became a Mexican citizen. Slavery was outlawed in Mexico and its territories, yet Sutter and others maintained Indians as slaves. The Roman Catholic Missions of California also kept Indian slaves. This quotation is historically important because many people never realized that slavery was prevalent in California.
Christopher Columbus was an Italian explorer and navigator who completed four voyages across the Atlantic Ocean, opening the way for the widespread European exploration and colonization of the Americas. His expeditions, sponsored by the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, were the first European contact with the Caribbean, Central America, and South America.
