What should be the legacy of Christopher Columbus?
What should be the legacy of Christopher Columbus? To celebrate Columbus is to celebrate a legacy of genocide, slavery, rape and plunder. It commemorates the violent and bloody accumulation of capital for the ruling classes of Europe and, later, the U.S. Columbus' voyage was financed by the Spanish monarchy. Columbus was the first European slave trader in the Americas. Is the legacy of Columbus positive or negative? As such, the first important thing to consider as a positive element of Columbus' legacy is that he was the first European explorer to reach the New World. While some Vikings had arrived...