How Did Christopher Columbus Biased

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Write your first paragraph here: The first source is about the poem,i personally think the poem is biased.I believe this because the poem only mentions the positive things about Christopher Columbus,for example they mentioned in the last sentence” But Columbus was brave, and he was bright…”this proves that this poem mentions only the good thing about Christopher.For example they did not mention how Christopher was in charge of at least 12 million deaths,they also did not mention about how they invaded foreign places and kept the civilians as slaves.Another reason why I think this poem is biased is because the time period this poem was published three years after the world war 2.The publisher was mostly biased because after helping

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