https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6 Directions: Write down at least two quotes from the readings that you think are strong pieces of evidence that a person/group of people was guilty of murdering the Taino. You can choose to submit evidence against more than one person/group. en-us 2020-09-11 22:51:36 UTC 2020-09-15 17:31:36 UTC hello@padlet.com https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745010230 “You ordered your men to spread “terror” among the Taínos when there was rumor of resistance. “
 
(pg 4)]]> 2020-09-14 17:19:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745010230 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745013319 "It was life in a system that valued private property (especially gold), and approved of violence against non-Christians... and kill" (8). ]]> 2020-09-14 17:20:23 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745013319 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745013808 "On your second voyage to the Indies,
you ordered your men to round up Taínos and had over 500 shipped to Spain as
slaves"]]> 2020-09-14 17:20:28 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745013808 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745014881 "Any European
conqueror would have been every bit
as bad as Columbus. Why? Because the
system of empire was to blame, not any
particular individual."]]> 2020-09-14 17:20:37 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745014881 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745017106 "When Columbus returned after his
first voyage with several Indian captives,
and you rewarded him, you became guilty
of kidnapping." page 3]]> 2020-09-14 17:20:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745017106 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745017513 “There is no evidence that Columbus personally captured slaves or killed anyone with his own hands. You are the ones responsible for the enslavement of first hundreds, then thousands, of Taíno Indians.” (Page 5).]]> 2020-09-14 17:21:01 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745017513 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745019495 “You did the dirty work. You raped women. You set dogs on infants. You cut the hands off Taínos who didn’t deliver enough gold.”
(pg 5)

]]> 2020-09-14 17:21:21 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745019495 carloscarrasco4 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745021933 "Your first act in the lands you 'discovered' was to take possession of another people's territory in the name of an empire thousands of miles away"-pg 4]]> 2020-09-14 17:21:42 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745021933 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745022024 "you did the dirty work. you raped women. you set dogs on infants.]]> 2020-09-14 17:21:43 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745022024 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745023196 " you ordered your men to round up Tainos" page 4]]> 2020-09-14 17:21:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745023196 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745024708 “From the very beginning you must have known what Columbus meant to do. He took Taíno captives from other islands and held them against their will.”]]> 2020-09-14 17:22:10 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745024708 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745026928 You ordered your men to spread
“terror” among the Taínos when there
was rumor of resistance. (page 4)

]]> 2020-09-14 17:22:36 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745026928 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745027961 “You hired him to “discover” and claim new lands. Thus you are guilty of conspiracy to steal the territory of people you didn’t even know, who had never bothered or harmed you.” (Page 6)]]> 2020-09-14 17:22:48 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745027961 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745032438  “True, Columbus’ men did the killing, Columbus gave the orders and King Ferdinand and Queen Isabella paid the bills—and took the profits.”]]> 2020-09-14 17:23:40 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745032438 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745034324 “You did the dirty work. You raped women. You set dogs on infants. You cut the hands off Taínos who didn’t deliver enough gold. You whipped Taínos if they didn’t work hard enough in the mines.”]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:02 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745034324 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745034905 "you told your men to help themselves to the remaining Taino captives, which they did. This act alone killed several hundred Taino"

]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745034905 carloscarrasco4 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745035816 "Had you wanted the cruelty to stop, you could have ordered all your subjects home. But then you wouldn’t have gotten any more gold. And that was what you wanted, right?" -pg 6]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745035816 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745036390 “You hired him to “discover” and claim new lands. Thus you are guilty of conspiracy to steal the territory of people you didn’t even know, who had never bothered or harmed you.”

]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:27 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745036390 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745036772 "You ordered your men to spread "terror" among the Tainos when there was rumor of resistance"(4).]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:32 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745036772 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745037936 "really you didn't care what columbus did , so long as you got rich. At times you would order that the Tainos should be treated humanely.]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:46 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745037936 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745038248 “Why didn’t Caonabó and the Taínos kill all the Spaniards—including Columbus—before they had a chance to return to Spain? Imagine the different outcome had the Taínos been smart enough to stop Columbus before he could launch the invasion.”]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:50 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745038248 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745038799 You did the dirty work. You raped
women. You set dogs on infants. You cut
the hands off Taínos who didn’t deliver
enough gold. You whipped Taínos if they
didn’t work hard enough in the mines]]> 2020-09-14 17:24:57 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745038799 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745042322 “You could have ordered Columbus to stop kidnapping Indians. You could have punished him for this illegal act. By not doing anything to stop Columbus and his men, you legalized every crime they committed.”]]> 2020-09-14 17:25:39 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745042322 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745043625 “In order to get more wealth, Columbus and his men took Taínos as slaves, terrorized them into searching out gold and forced them to work on their farms and in their mines."]]> 2020-09-14 17:25:54 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745043625 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745045388 "Had Taínos worked together
they might have beaten the Spaniards even
after Columbus returned. After all, the
Spaniards numbered fewer than 2,000;
Taínos numbered in the hundreds of thousands, possibly as many as three million" page 4]]> 2020-09-14 17:26:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745045388 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745045779 “You, as the representatives of this system, are guilty for the genocide committed against Taínos.”]]> 2020-09-14 17:26:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745045779 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745046188 "You hired him to “discover” and claim
new lands."]]> 2020-09-14 17:26:25 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745046188 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745046659 2020-09-14 17:26:31 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745046659 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745048753 "You did the dirty work......You cut
the hands off Taínos who didn’t deliver enough gold. You whipped Taínos if they didn’t work hard enough in the mines."]]> 2020-09-14 17:26:55 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745048753 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745049930 Tainos | “You failed to fight back against the Spaniards. This meant that you brought the fate of slavery and death upon yourselves.”

]]> 2020-09-14 17:27:09 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745049930 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745050823 "... and you rewarded him, you became guilty of kidnapping. You could have punished him for this illegal act. By not not doing anything to stop Columbus and his men, you legalized every crime they committed"(6). ]]> 2020-09-14 17:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745050823 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745050851 You could have or Columbus to stop kidnapping Indians. You could have punished him for this illegal act. By not doing anything to stop Columbus and his men, you legalized every crime they committed]]> 2020-09-14 17:27:20 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745050851 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745071641 "When Columbus returned after his first voyage with several Indian captives, and you rewarded him, you became guilty of kidnapping." (page 3)]]> 2020-09-14 17:31:35 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745071641 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745080464 You ordered your men to spread
“terror” among the Taínos when there
was rumor of resistance.]]> 2020-09-14 17:33:22 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745080464 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745081032 2020-09-14 17:33:29 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745081032 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745090536 “There is no evidence that Columbus personally captured slaves or killed anyone with his own hands. You are the ones responsible for the enslavement of first hundreds, then thousands, of Taíno Indians.” 

]]> 2020-09-14 17:35:24 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745090536 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745090730 2020-09-14 17:35:26 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745090730 https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745110676 "He took Taíno captives from other islands and held them against their will. He claimed your land as his own. He was interested only in finding gold."
(page 4)]]> 2020-09-14 17:39:16 UTC https://padlet.com/kconwell/Columbus6/wish/745110676