Argumentative Essay: Can We Justify Columbus Day?

De Las Casas did not like how the natives were treated. Although, he released his slaves. De Las Casas gave up his dream of becoming rich. He felt so strongly about the bad treatment of the natives that he just could not be apart of it. In addition, he became a spokesperson for the natives. De Las Casas risked being shunned by his peers. He did this because witnessing this infernal treatment first hand was too much to have on his conscience. Furthermore, De Las Casas became a priest. He felt that he needed forgiveness for the tragedies that he was involved with. De Las Casas wanted to be able to stop the horrific tragedies that the Christians were doing and his way of doing so was with help from the almighty. De Las Casas wasn’t just a good person he

Columbus is seen as a great man who colonized the Americas but in reality he introduced three horrible acts which include slavery, genocide, and racism. Columbus was the first man to introduce slavery with native people from the Caribbeans. He encouraged his men to rape women as young as nine and forced labor which eventually led to malnutrition and disease. Columbus started transatlantic slave trade by imported numbers of Africans from Haiti to work for him which lead to depopulation. In the Americas Columbus was wiping out a whole population of native Americans so that he could claim the land for himself. This first started when Columbus hung natives in rows of thirteen “in honor of the Redeemer and His 12 apostles.” Columbus eventually ruined two generations of native Caribbeans along with his Spanish discoverers. We shouldn’t celebrate Columbus day because we’re practically being racist towards both native Caribbeans and Hatians because we’re teaching the victims that what happened to their people was perfectly fine. Columbus should not be praised with his own holiday because of his cruelty to native Caribbeans, native Hatians, and native

There has been a heated discussion about changing columbus day to native peoples day. This argument for getting rid of columbus day is flawed and quite hypocritical. This group Is claiming we should get rid of columbus day due to the fact he killed and enslaved the native people of the nations he visited. Christopher columbus and his men did kill and enslave the native people but, that was normal for that time period. Also how could Christopher columbus kill so many with less than 200 men? The answer is simple, he joined the ongoing tribal warfare that was taking place at the time. The tribes there already had mass graves, slaughtered and enslaved each other. This didn’t just start when columbus came around, the aztecs were

We should not celebrate Columbus day. We should not celebrate columbus day because columbus did not find amaria first people were already living there. In the article, It states, while others may have reached America before him. If people got there before columbus then he did not discover america. Most people celebrate columbus day because he discovered america if he did not discover america why should he get a holiday. columbus just found land he did not even go in america he just found land that already had people on it. In the text it states, if Columbus knew the United States had a holiday honoring him -- even though he never actually set foot in any of the now superpower's 50 states. Why should we celebrate some one who did not even step

I don’t think that the United States should recognize Colombus Day as Indigenous Day because of the conteversy that Columbus caused to the Native americans . Christopher Colombus was getting create for something that he didn’t discover. The native americans got little to no credit for being there first. We don’t get to learn about how Colombus treated the Native Americans as well. The only thing that America praises him for is the discovery of new land.

Columbus didn’t discover anything new, making a reason why we shouldn’t celebrate Columbus Day. Christopher Columbus didn’t discover America. He could have discover a place where people had already live there for years. Columbus contributed nothing to European knowledge. Columbus having no actual discovery meant that there wasn’t anything new to learn. Columbus also didn’t convert any natives to Christianity. “The Indians of the Caribbean were destroyed within two generations by the spanish discovers” (Source 1). Columbus Day shouldn’t be celebrated since Christopher Columbus himself was a cruel man.

I don't think that we should celebrate Columbus Day. We have been taught since we were young that he is a hero and had done many great things. He is not what he is made out to be.

"Should the United States celebrate Columbus Day?" In my opinion, the United States should celebrate Columbus Day because it is celebrated as a day when America was discovered. It is a part of history that we can not ignore. While I realize that we should not celebrate a day that marked the start of a massacre and bloodshed for decades to come, I cannot help but think that behind most revolutions and wars in history, blood has been shed. In addition, I feel that we do not celebrate Columbus Day to mock anyone or to accept the crimes of Christopher Columbus, but rather we celebrate it as a day our roots in America began. In addition, our morals are different than what people thought of as acceptable back then. Who are we to judge the actions done by someone else? We have neither lived in that time period nor were we raised the way they were. We were taught what they were taught. It is undeniable that without Columbus, much of what we have today may have not existed. Of course, this by no means show that I encouraging the way he treated the Natives, but rather stating that this is a indubitable part of our history that we should not be so ashamed of

A place can’t be discovered if there are people living their already. Columbus would have been considered a foreigner in the Americas, not a pioneer. Christopher Columbus is a big misconception because in school they teach that Columbus discovered the Americas, but Columbus didn’t even know that he was in the Americas. Columbus believed “he found the Indies”, and this is what he believed even when he died, he never knew he landed in the Caribbean(Morgan). This piece of evidence suggests what Columbus believed he had done, which was find the Indies because that was his original plan, travel westward to Asia. Columbus would bring back gold, silver, and foods from the Americas but he would tell Spain it was from the Indies because that is where he thought he was. He was even named governor of the Indies, even though he was in the Caribbean, this is one of the reasons why he called the natives Indians, because he thought he was in the

As a Spanish friar, I, Bartolome de las Casas, came to the New World to aid in converting the Indians into Christians. They have gone against our beloved king’s decision by pursuing war against the Indians. Every action Cortes has orchestrated has ultimately ended in death and hardship for the Indians. Cortes is guilty and consequences need to be served.

I think that columbus day should not be celebrated because there are a lot of wrong things columbus has done.Columbus was so money hungry that he went to the king and queen of spain and talked them into giving him gold so he can sail the world.He also told them he would pay them back when he gets back but,columbus was in debt.He used all the money they gave him so he decided to enslave the natives. Columbus is a liar and cheater because he said that he would pay them back but he didn’t have the money because he was in debt himself.

It was the Spanish’s duty to drive them into Christianity. Native Americans were also observed to be suitable for slaughter or conquering. This argument sheds light on how much violence and suffering the Spanish caused in order to colonize North America. Las Casas witnessed the death of many poorly-armed natives which was something he never forgot. Traveling through Hispaniola, he was able to see the appalling conditions in which the natives were kept. His convictions about the plight of the Native Americans caused him to relinquish his family holdings on Hispaniola. Las Casas became certain that the killing and enslavement of the native population was a crime and a mortal sin as it is defined by the church. It was this iron-clad belief that made Bartolomé de las Casas such a firm advocate for fair treatment of Native Americans. As a result of his unyielding dedication to this cause, he became the “Protector of the Indians” until his death in

“One nation, under God, indivisible, with liberty and justice for all.” These are the words we were taught as early young Americans. However, there is a man who’s actions have denied the Native Americans’ liberty and justice, and his name is Junipero Serra. Junipero Serra was a Spanish missionary who dedicated his life to spreading the Word of God to the natives of America so that He can forge his path: the path to Heaven. Although many of them were eager to become transformed by God, Serra’s methods of conversion became their destruction rather than their solution. Pope Francis recognizes him for his “selfless acts” rather than his acts of genocide. Ironically, Serra believed that teaching the Native

In 1492, Columbus sailed the ocean blue. That is the rhyme that many of us probably memorized when first learning about Christopher Columbus as children. Of course, as kids, we wouldn’t have understood all of the events that occurred because of Christopher Columbus, only being able to maintain the idea that he “discovered America,” later to grow up and be hit with the realization of the fact that more happened than we were initially taught. Christopher Columbus, as we later learned, did not discover America. The America’s Native people were the Native Americans, hence their name. As we grew a little older and started to reach our teen years, we would learn about how Christopher Columbus took the natives as slaves, creating a system in which gold would be collected for Columbus and Spain’s profit, and several brutalities would be committed if orders were not obeyed or

What problem did the Spanish have with native peoples in terms of accepting Christianity? Why?