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Wednesday, March 7, 2012
Tuesday, February 14, 2012
Thursday, January 26, 2012
Columbus with his fleet of seventeen ships and 1500 men had arrived off Dominica on November 3rd; ten days later the fleet had reached St. Croix.
Now, after five days in the Virgin Islands, on November 18th, the fleet was again underway traveling aboard were at least twenty-nine Indians from Guadeloupe and St. Croix. During the Night of the 18th, as the fleet continued sailing along the 100-mile-long southern coast of Puerto Rico, three of the natives of that island taken on in Guadeloupe - two women and one young man jumped ship and swam ashore.
Cu lotti, 1930, p.118.
Now, after five days in the Virgin Islands, on November 18th, the fleet was again underway traveling aboard were at least twenty-nine Indians from Guadeloupe and St. Croix. During the Night of the 18th, as the fleet continued sailing along the 100-mile-long southern coast of Puerto Rico, three of the natives of that island taken on in Guadeloupe - two women and one young man jumped ship and swam ashore.
Cu lotti, 1930, p.118.
Tuesday, January 24, 2012
Monday, January 23, 2012
Thursday, January 19, 2012
The Passion of the Hawks
In 1900, A wordy Indiana Senator, Albert J. Beveridge,
stirred the American spirit like a March wind whipping the
courthouse flag. He cried:
God has not been preparing the English-speaking and Teutonic
peoples for a thousand years for nothing but vain and idle self-admiration.
No! He has made us the master organizers of the world to establish system where chaos reigns…He has made us adepts in government that we may administer government among savage and senile peoples…. He has marked the American people as his chosen nation to finally lead in the regeneration of the world. This is the divine mission of America…. We will not renounce our part in the mission of the race, trustee under God, of the civilization of the world.
Monday, January 9, 2012
las Casas
las Casas:
"The Admiral thought that he should take to Castile from this island of Cuba or the mainland… a few Indians to teach them the Castilian language….
"It is a fact that one should endure any toil and danger rather than do such a thing, for… it was a violation of the laws of nature and international law, which state and hold that he who comes simply and trustingly to trade with others … should be allowed to return home … without impediment.
"Columbus' action was wrong. How would the Admiral have felt if the Indians had forcibly detained two Christians he had sent into the interior and of what crimes would he have thought the Indians guilty? he would certainly have thought that, in order to rescue the two Christians, he might wage just war upon them."
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