Columbus the Enslaver

[ndrosen]

I mentioned celebrating Bartolome de las Casas Day instead of Columbus Day; Ilya Somin has an article on the Volokh Conspiracy about Christopher Columbus’s cruelties and misdeeds, in which he quotes from a column by Jeff Jacoby. I remember reading Jacoby’s columns in the Boston Globe, back when I lived in the Boston area (1996-1998).

Comments

[thewayne]

I'm much more in favor of Leif Eriksson Day as the vikings actually made it to North America.

[ndrosen]

But did Leif Eriksson or Bjarni Herjolfsson discover America in October?

[thewayne]

Couldn't tell you.