COLUMBUS

What This Book Covers

1. Prologue
2. Chapter One - The Boy from Genoa
3. Chapter Two - Nobody Wanted This Voyage
4. Chapter Three - The Big Lie of 1492
5. Chapter Four - First Contact, First Atrocity
6. Chapter Five - The Gold Delusion
7. Chapter Six - Admiral of the Ocean Sea (And Lord of the Dungeon)
8. Chapter Seven - The Other Voyages
9. Chapter Eight - Collapse and Chains
10. Chapter Nine - The Real Discoverers
11. Chapter Ten - A Legacy of Fire
12. Chapter Eleven - The Invention of a Hero
13. Chapter Twelve - The Statues Will Fall
14. Chapter Thirteen - Genocide, Inc.
15. Chapter Fourteen - No More Myths

Excerpt

PROLOGUE THERE HE IS. Smiling in your elementary school poster. Hand on the helm, wind in his sails, boots planted on the “New World” like a man who brought light to darkness. You were told he was brave. Curious. A dreamer. You probably made a diorama of his ship. Colored in the ocean blue. Memorized the year like a prayer: 1492. What they didn’t mention, what they never mentioned, was the blood. They didn’t tell you that Christopher Columbus trafficked children. That he cut off the hands of those who couldn’t meet his gold quotas. That he created a system so cruel even the Spanish Crown said enough. They didn’t tell you that he didn’t discover anything. The people were already there. The...