5 Hidden Horrors of Columbus Who Brutally Butchered Humanity

He was a monster & history books don’t want you to know it.

If you’re one of those folks who celebrate Christopher Columbus, then brace yourself, because I’m about to prove that you’re celebrating a man who committed acts of racist genocide, massive land robbery, barbaric slavery, child/adult serial rape, and systemic torture.

But don’t just take our word for it — there are five historically documented facts that prove Columbus is arguably the worst monster in world history.

It’s been 527 years since Columbus stumbled onto the Bahamian island of San Salvador, and the first official Columbus Day was celebrated in 1792 by the notoriously corrupt Tammany Hall in New York.

However, let’s not forget that Columbus didn’t “discover” America — the indigenous Red/Brown people had already been here for 14,000 years.

So if you’re a Columbus celebrator, it’s time to face the facts.

This man murdered roughly eight million Red/Brown people, raped and tortured millions more, and robbed them of millions of acres of land.

And all in the name of discovering a shortcut to India, which he never found anyway.

1. Columbus And His Atrocities In The Caribbean

Columbus had a bit of a problem following orders from the King and Queen when he sailed to the Caribbean.

Despite being told to leave the indigenous people alone, he decided to implement his own tribute system.

Every person over 14 was required to give him a shiny hawk’s bell of gold every three months. Those who didn’t follow had their hands severed, and they were left to bleed till death.

Both Haiti and the Dominican Republic were affected to a degree of about 10,000.

Columbus and his crew committed unspeakable acts, like roasting people alive on spits and burning them at the stake.

They even hacked up children and tore babies from their mothers’ breasts before smashing their little heads against rocks. Columbus had his men cut off kids’ legs to test their sword’s sharpness.

They poured boiling soap on people, and let hunting dogs eat others alive. When their dogs were still hungry, they even resorted to killing Arawak babies for dog food.

Bartolome de las Casas, a Spanish historian and Catholic priest, witnessed the horrors firsthand and documented them for posterity.

Bartolome de las Casas, witnessed much of the carnage and documented it in his writings.

2. Brutal Exploitation By The Crew Of Columbus

According to Miguel Cuneo, a Columbus crew member, before departing for Spain in 1495, they gathered a group of 1,600 indigenous men and women and made it known that any sailor interested in taking them could do so.

Cuneo himself received a teenage Caribbean girl as a gift from Columbus, but when she rejected his advances, he responded by brutally beating and raping her.

The exploitation of native women was widespread, with Columbus’ lieutenants being rewarded with sex slaves as soon as they arrived in the Caribbean.

This included both adult and child rape, with Columbus himself remarking in 1500 that girls as young as nine or ten were in demand.

Bartolomé de las Casas witnessed Columbus’ soldiers committing unspeakable acts, including dismembering, beheading, and raping 3,000 natives in one day.

The horror of it all left him trembling as he documented the atrocities. Sadly, this kind of inhumanity was all too common during Columbus’ era.

3. The Lasting Impact of Columbus In The Caribbean And The High Price of Greed

In 1493 when Columbus first came to smaller islands of the Caribbean there were at least 8 million Taino people living there.

However, the arrival of this nefariously efficient man marked the beginning of a dark and bloody chapter in the history of mankind.

Columbus and his troops set about pillaging the land and subjugating its people with a ravenous quest for riches and resources.

The Taino, who had lived in peace with their surroundings for millennia, were no match for the invaders’ superior weaponry and tactics.

Within three years of Columbus’ arrival, sickness, violence, and forced labor had wiped off the majority of the Taino people.

Villages which were once thriving were reduced to the mere shadow of what they once were with only 3 million people surviving.

hardly 100,000 of the Taino were still alive by the time Columbus left in 1504, just 11 years after his initial arrival, as a result of his continued exploitation of the land and its inhabitants.

All for the sake of greed and conquest, it is a stunning loss of life and culture.

4. Columbus’s Atrocities And New Kind Of Slavery System

Christopher Columbus the man who gave us a lot to think about — but not in a good way.

Columbus is credited with discovering America, but don’t forget the other things he brought with him, such as mass murder and new kinds of slavery.

Columbus’s slavery system was particularly heinous — race-based and generational, ensuring that the cruelty and abuse of enslaved people continued for generations.

Many have researched this, and it turns out that Columbus wasn’t just responsible for the first shipping slaves across the Atlantic, but he actually pushed over 5,000 people into slavery.

The impact of Columbus’s actions on the course of history cannot be ignored.

His legacy of slavery shaped the Americas for centuries, with consequences that still affect us today.

5. The Fall Of Columbus

So it turns out Columbus wasn’t just a regular explorer. No, his evil deeds were so egregious that Governor Francisco De Bodadilla had no choice but to arrest him.

The governor didn’t make this decision lightly, he had 23 eyewitnesses testify against Columbus!

All these witnesses stepped forward to share their account of Columbus’ inhuman and widespread crimes against the Taino/Arawak/Lucayan population — what a devastating accusation.

So what did Columbus have to say for himself?

Not much, because the evidence was so overwhelming that he had no choice but to confess.

In case that wasn’t enough, he was also found guilty!

Final Words

Columbus may have sailed the ocean blue in 1492, but his legacy is anything but crystal clear.

While he may have been celebrated as a hero for centuries, it’s becoming increasingly apparent that his actions were monstrous and the true victims of his voyages were the Indigenous peoples he encountered.

Perhaps it’s time to remove Columbus off his pedestal and honor those who actually deserve our admiration and respect as we continue to reassess history and its heroes.

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