Due to biases in texts, the true nature of the events when Christopher Columbus came to the Americas is not common knowledge. When Christopher Columbus came to the America’s, with the help of the europeans, they murdered and enslaved Indigenous people to the point of extinction, that being the most notable of their atrocities committed. In a text by Joy Hakim called A History of US, she quotes an excerpt from Christopher Columbus’ personal journal. The texts reads, “They remained so much our friends that is was a marvel;...they came swimming to the ships’ boat, and brought us parrots and cotton thread...many other things, and in exchange we gave them little glass beads... Finally they exchanged with us everything they had, with good will.”
