The United States of America celebrates Columbus Day, to commemorate the day Christopher Columbus landed in the New World, on the second Monday of October. The United States should not be celebrating Columbus Day because Christopher was not a very nice person. He made strict laws about obtaining gold and bringing its overseas, enslaved and murdered millions of native Americans, and he did not even step foot in America, the main country that celebrates this day in history.
In a letter from Christopher Columbus to Queen Isabella and King Ferdinand, Columbus recommends rules and regulations for a new colony, for the benefit of Spain. In this letter Columbus states, “None of the colonists shall go and seek gold without a license… And that he must first take and oath, (Columbus). He is pretty strict in the way he states all of these new rules and continues to explain how one would bring their gold home. “When time for their departure comes… [they should] register all the cargo they take in, that nothing may be concealed,” (Columbus). Christopher goes on to explain that if one does conceal his/her belongings, “it shall be forfeited to your Highnesses,” (Columbus). These rules make Columbus seem as though he has no mercy for the colonist, if they do not follow rules, all of
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Against the wishes of the Queen, “Columbus established a forced labor policy over the native population to rebuild the settlement and explore for gold,” (Columbus). When Columbus set sail in 1492, the first place he found was Hispaniola, where he discovered the Taino people. Who he raped, pillaged, enslaved and slaughtered millions to get money. “Eventually, Columbus resorted to wiping out the Taino [population] altogether. Prior to Columbus’ arrival in the New World, scholars place the population of Haiti/Hispaniola at around 1.5 to 3 million people...By 1555, every single native was dead,” (The Daily Take