Christopher Columbus – Hero or Harmful?

For the most part, when the name “Christopher Columbus” is mentioned, everyone recognizes the celebrity. In the article I read by Dr. George Sprecace, he writes as a response to a TV special he view on America’s earliest settlers. He saw the special as depressing and tragic, as it referred to the plight of the Native Americans throughout history. One man commonly demonized for hostility towards the Native Americans is Christopher Columbus.
According to Dr. Sprecace, Columbus is always getting the blame, however unfairly, for initially breaking the trust between “Indians” and the “White Man”. He is held responsible for the start of slavery in the Americas after taking over the Arawak tribe is the Greater and Lesser Antilles (also known as the “West Indies”). Sprecace refutes with a lesson from history. “Slavery already existed in the Americas, especially in Central America, at the time of Columbus’ arriva...