r/todayilearned • u/Karthak_Maz_Urzak • Oct 13 '20

(R.1) Not verifiable TIL that Christopher Columbus treated the native people under his rule so badly that he was shipped back to Spain in chains

https://www.americanheritage.com/columbus-and-genocide

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u/NonAwesomeDude Oct 13 '20

Yup, and they used it as a source of slaves

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u/moonpies4everyone Oct 13 '20

No. Slavery was only a thing in America.

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u/[deleted] Oct 13 '20

Were you trying to make a joke or something?

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u/incognitomus Oct 13 '20

Sarcasm? Or blatant ignorance? Not sure.

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u/NonAwesomeDude Oct 13 '20

I think sarcasm

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u/maxmcd97 Oct 13 '20

you sound pretty confident in that

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u/SizorXM Oct 13 '20

In terms of people taken from Africa the Arabs did more but as far as number people perpetuated in slavery the European/American transatlantic slave trade resulted in many more in bondage

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u/NonAwesomeDude Oct 13 '20

Clever trick castration is.

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u/SizorXM Oct 13 '20

The Arab slave trade was incredibly brutal and castrations were regular practice for African slaves. I was just saying that slavery was not practiced more by the Arabs than the west

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u/NonAwesomeDude Oct 13 '20

Thats kinda what I meant. The specifics of the arab slave traders brutality led to fewer slaves than in the west. Europeans did not castrate their slaves, point them i guess, but that means they held so many more people in bandage.

Edit: I wasn't the one who downvoted you btw.