[Black Star Editorial\The Genocidal Legacy of Columbus]
In one entry, Las Casas talks about the legacy of cruelty that was unleashed by Columbus saying, the “killing, terrorizing, afflicting, torturing, and destroying the Native peoples, doing all this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of Hispaniola, once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million, has now a population of barely two hundred persons…In truth, I believe that the number of the slain is more like fifteen million.”
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Bartolome de Las Casas
