• JusticeForPorygon@lemmy.world
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    1 month ago

    He was acquitted though iirc

    Also it’s not like Spain didn’t keep the territories and continue to enslave the locals

    Well actually they did eventually give up on enslaving the locals since they would just get smallpox and die, so they brought Africans over instead.

    • Successful_Try543@feddit.org
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      1 month ago

      Well…

      The neutrality and accuracy of the accusations and investigations of Bobadilla toward Columbus and his brothers have been disputed by historians, given the anti-Italian sentiment of the Spaniards and Bobadilla’s desire to take over Columbus’s position.

      Wikimedia: Christopher Columbus – Third Voyage

      Basically just game of thrones.