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The second letter las Casas quotes from was sent during the time of the Roldan Rebellion, and las Casas doesn't quote the whole of it but just where he is explaining why he couldn't hold the ships until negotiations were over for those rebelling colonists who wanted to return to spain, because they were dying. That's from History of the Indies, Book 1, Chapter Because judging people that lived years ago by self-righteous political standards of today is goofy I do not really give a hoot and take it personal the way many do today.

No one today has any business judging Columbus, the Indians or anyone else as if people today are some sort of sinless angels Unlike today, at least sodomy was taboo in those days. People may have had their faults, but they weren't godless heathens who believed humans came from slime under a rock. I could go on, but the point is made. Times and tech may change, but human nature does not.

The sanctimonious, self-righteous, stone-throwers of today's world have no business casting judgement on anyone from Columbus's time. Defends slavery but draws the line at sodomy, then goes on to call others self righteous. I finally found that letter in full translated online I am leaving the link below for anyone who wants to read it for themselves. He took the woman when a canoe with several Caribs attacted their ship, which was laying at anchor.

I thought that the meaning of "While I was in the boat I captured a very beautiful Carib woman, whom the said Lord Admiral gave to me" was that Cuneo captured the Carib woman during that skirmish and then later asked Columbus if he could keep her as a slave and Columbus and that was granted I assume that Columbus had authority over captives taken by his men, Cuneo included Columbus did on other occasions enslave Caribs captured in battles, so this would not be out of character.

Context answered another of my questions, which was whether what happened in his "cabin" was on the cabin of a ship or not So, others onboard would have heard what happened when the woman was whipped, although they may not have known that she was whipped for defending herself from being raped. What isn't answered is whether Columbus was onboard this ship when this happened it seems likely on the one hand, but he could have been ashore exploring at the time.

Columbus had said things in some of his letters that showed that he didn't approve of the relationships the men had with the native women "Our people here are such that there is neither good man nor bad who hasn't two or three Indians to serve him and dogs to hunt for him and, though it perhaps were better not to mention it, women so pretty that one must wonder at it. With the last of these practices I am extremely discontented, for it seems to me a disservice to God, but I can do nothing about it It sounds from the writing that Cuneo was on the same boat as Columbus If Columbus was aware, I'd be bothered that he didn't do anything about though if he had intervened, that's probably not something Cuneo would have writen his friends to brag about, so even thats unknown.

There's just a whole bunch we can only conjecture about. Still, whether Columbus didn't know about this , knew and choose to turn a blind eye because of his friend, or didn't care because this was a Carib prisoner of war not a member of the peaceful tribes who's nature he praised , I agree with you that this isn't a sign that he was a "sex trafficker" as I've seen some sites say.

But was sex trafficking going on? Columbus himself complained about the "slavers" going after young girls. I would not have wanted to be a women during this period. Gale- Columbus, nor Las Casas, said the Spaniards enslaved women for sex. They did not need a sex slave ring for that.

And Columbus punished the Spaniards for mistreating the natives. It's very strange that Cuneo says the woman he raped scream at the top of her lungs, yet nobody noticed and no one ever accused Columbus of giving women away to be rape. In fact, the rebels complained Columbus and his brothers kept the women away from them. Columbus came to the Americas and took everything from the Native people. He did not "save" them or treat any of them with kindness. Season Membership Your financial support is what enables Friends of Music to bring quality musical entertainment to Columbus area residents at a reasonable season ticket price.

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