Christopher Columbus’ story is a great example of colonization as a hole, considering that “his greed for gold, mutilated, enslaved, and murdered the Indians who greeted him in friendly innocence” (Zinn 56) and is believed to be a hero in American and Canadian society. He is honored and remembered as the greatest explorer in the whole world because he violated the human rights of the Indians. He is man who said that Indians “would make fine servants .... With fifty men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we want” (Zinn 57). From the point of view of the Indians, he is a manipulated, orchestrated genocide and stole all their goods. Therefore, Columbus' legacy is a historical bias due to the fact that he is portrayed to be
