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The life of Jean Laffite was full of adventure, danger, and mystery. Many tales have been told about Laffite but there are frequent questions about the truth of these stories. Jean Laffite was often called ruthless and cruel. Although, many women said he was quite a gentleman. To some he was a villain, but to others he was a hero. So if you're wondering who Jean Laffite was and what his life was like some of your questions are about to be answered. Jean Laffite’s early years were filled with…

Martín Cortez de Monroy and his mother was Catalina Pizarro Altamirano. Through his mother, Hernando was the second cousin to Francisco Pizarro, who conquered the Incan empire in modern-day Peru. In 1506, for his participation in the conquest of Hispaniola and Cuba, Cortez was granted a large estate as well as some native slaves. Cortez first served as a soldier in an expedition of Cuba led by Diego Velázquez in 1511, but he ignored those orders and traveled to Mexico with about 500 men and 11…

disease known to mankind. This disease caused lives impossible to withstand through, all the suffering they went into before they died. It became known as an epidemic disease that ended up exterminating thousands of people. Smallpox started out in Hispaniola originated among African slaves in the silver mines of Haiti and Dominican Republic. Because of no cure, it traveled to the island of Puerto Rico, and then Cuba. It was only a matter of time until it spreaded to the mainland. During the…

Historians Written by Bartolome de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies was created to inform Prince Philip about the horrible acts inflicted on the Native Americans by the Spaniards. Through this document, las Casas pleads the Prince to do justice to the “unassuming, long-suffering, unassertive, and submissive” natives by preventing Spaniards from getting licenses for ventures and conquests in the New World. las Casas’ A Short Account left me aghast when I finished…

I will be keenly and succinctly investing the circulating claims that ' 'European men had little use for women in the era of conquest in the Americas, hence the lack of European women on voyages to the Caribbean up to the 1650s ' '. I will arrive at a measured conclusion, stating if the affirmations made is prejudice or nonpartisan, with the aid of credible sources which has been corroborated to avoid inaccuracy. The era of conquest which materialized over the period of 300 years…

early Spanish historian, Spanish Catholic priest, and Dominican missionary, who was the first to expose the oppression of native peoples by Europeans in the Americas. Written in 1528, his document titled “History of the Indies” which took place in Hispaniola outlined the appalling treatment of Indians and the greed and cruelty of the Spanish. Since then, the original document has been translated from Spanish to English. Bartolomé de las Casas was a non-reliable source for numerous, distinct…

No More Columbus Day Remember the rhyme you were taught about Christopher Columbus? That was all a lie. In fact, he was a cruel man and did you know he did not even discover America. Christopher Columbus day should not be celebrated and recognized as a national holiday in the United States because his whole “being a great hero” was all just an act. He did not discover America and he was not even kind to the natives that he saw. Columbus is not that kind and friendly guy you thought he was.…

I think that columbus day should not be celebrated because there are a lot of things wrong things at one point columbus was wanted because he was in debt he owed a lot of people money/gold.Columbus day should not be celebrated also because columbus was so money hungry that he went to spain to a king in queen talked them into giving him gold so he can sail the world he told them he would pay them back when he gets back but columbus was in debt and he used all the money so he decided to enslave…

Now, I often have an African American student ask me in Spanish class why Spanish uses the word “negro” for black. The first time this happened I remember the student insisting that “negro” was an English word and was used to identify her and her people, a.k.a African Americans. This was a teachable moment where I explained that during slavery, slave owners chose to identify slaves as separate beings from themselves so they were named "negros” or “darkies”, to identify them as somehow different…

history many nations have fallen victim to imperialism by European nations. These nations were either taken through diplomatic means or through the use of a military. One of these nations was Haiti, a little country in the caribbean on the island of Hispaniola. The nation was colonized by the French, a leading superpower at the time. From the unfair treatment of its people and exploitation of its resources, this little nation fought back against this superpower and gained its independence. This…