Is Columbus Worthy?

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For example I think that columbus is not worthy of a holiday because of the cruel things he did to the native americans. As a result of this they were forced into manual labor were the suffered and died. Evidence to back that up is that columbus murder, torture, pillaging, robbery, slavery, kidnapping and forced them to leave thee home lands. However my claim connects to my evidence because they both have reasoning why I do not thing he’s worthy of his own holiday. Due to all the cruel mean things h e has done he is NOT a hero he is a villain

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