Androcles St. Matthew

A superb book that not only defends Columbus but traces the history of Columbophobia. Zinn wasn’t the first to critique Columbus as he claimed. That was Aaron Goodrich, whose 1874 book called ‘A History of the Character  and Achievements of the So-Called Christopher Columbus’ invented the false claim that Columbus was a pirate. He also shows that Samuel Elliot Morison was the first to accuse Columbus of genocide, debunking Zinn’s claim that he constructed a “grand romance” of the Genoan! He includes information that Columbus haters intentionally leave out, like the 1,500 Indians Columbus took prisoner, 500 of which were sent back to Spain, 300 of which drowned, killed 39 of Columbus’s men on the Hispaniola colony of La Navidad. He also shows that Bartolomeo de Las Casas defended Columbus and didn’t blame him for the atrocities he talked about. Most importantly, Guacomo shows how Columbus defended and protected the natives, specifically ordering his men not to harm them. He shows that Columbus condemned the actions Columbophobes pretend he supported. Columbus condemned the selling of girls aged nine and ten into sex slavery “as a terrible calumny by turbulent persons”. He warned my men not to take anything from the people without giving anything in exchange,” and ordered the natives christianized “by love rather than by force.” The only problem with this book is that Richard fails to connect anti-Americanism to the anti-Columbus movement. And he portrays Laurence Bergeen as different than any other lying Columbophobes, when he’s just as bad! Other than that, this book is readable and recommendable.

Absolutely superb! Combing the drawing style and rhyming of dr. Seuss with Lovecraft’s cosmic horror and dialogue!

This book is dishonest, Columbophobic, hypocritical garbage! Rawley falsely accused Christopher Columbus of starting the slave trade, which was started in 1444 by Africans and Portuguese! That’s five decades before the 1492 voyage! Rawley fails to mention Columbus freeing two slave girls, telling his men to use love and not force to convert Amerindians ,warning them not to take anything from the natives without giving anything back, and that the 500 “slaves” he brought back to Spain, 200 of which drowned, killed 39 of his men and were POWS! Rawley never condemns the Indigenous people of Africa and the Americas for their participation in the odious institution of human bondage! He portrays it as a purely white and western phenomenon! He’s promoting Ameriphobic and Blancophobic sentiment!

There’s only one thing wrong with this book. That it wasn’t written and released ten years ago. Mary Grabar demonstrates decisively that Howard Zinn was a liar! That he lied in every way it was possible to lie, by omission, by distortion, by quote mining, by misrepresentation, by making unsubstantiated assertions, by cherry-picking, and by making claims contradicted by the evidence! I especially like her expose of Zinn’s lies about Christopher Columbus. Columbus was the grandfather of America, without his voyage America wouldn’t exist. Zinn attacked him in order to delegitimize America! To potray this country as born in original sin, and needing to be born again as a communist utopia. Zinn was a historian in the same way that Henry M. Morris was a scientist. He was the David Barton and David Irving of the Left, and should be treated with the same revulsion and contempt!