much different picture of him than what many people have been taught. Christopher Columbus introduced two events that transformed race relationships and the modern world: the conquering of land, wealth, and labor from the native Indians, contributing to their near extinction, and the transatlantic slave trade of African ancestors, which fostered a racial underclass that, in some places, exists still to this day. Columbus’s initial impression of the Arawaks, who occupied the majority of the islands…
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