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Politics : Formerly About Advanced Micro Devices
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To: Tenchusatsu who wrote (774074)3/10/2014 3:30:27 PM
From: one_less   of 1581513
 
Regarding the Taino (Arawack) people of the Caribbean, Columbus wrote:

"They traded with us and gave us everything they had, with good will..they took great delight in pleasing us..They are very gentle and without knowledge of what is evil; nor do they murder or steal..Your highness may believe that in all the world there can be no better people ..They love their neighbours as themselves, and they have the sweetest talk in the world, and are gentle and always laughing."He also wrote:

"They would make fine servants.... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want."

hudsonvalleygeologist.blogspot.com

"According to one estimate, genocide and disease wiped out 3 million of the 3.5 million Tainos – 85%. Most were already dead when smallpox arrived in 1518."

It went way beyond simply killing those who fought Spanish rule. The Spanish had the Tainos:


  • grilled,
  • cut up into pieces like sheep,
  • run down by hunting dogs and torn to pieces,
  • strung up and burned alive 13 at a time – in memory of Jesus and his 12 Apostles.
  • Columbus demanded a certain amount gold or cotton from each Taino over the age of 13. Those who failed to meet his demands had their hands cut off.





In 1512 when Hatuey was about to be burned at the stake (pictured), a Franciscan brother told him him about the Christian faith to save his soul. When Hatuey found out that most good Christians were going to Heaven, he chose Hell.



Source: Mainly “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” (1542) by Bartolome de Las Casas.

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