stackyFACTSWhen you are so exceptionally brutal that 15th-century Spain thinks you've gone too far, you belong in jail.
When you are so exceptionally brutal that 15th-century Spain thinks you've gone too far, you belong in jail. While serving as governor of Hispaniola, Columbus was a horrifying tyrant, routinely mutilating both natives and his own colonists for minor infractions. In 1500, the Spanish crown was so disgusted by his reign of terror that an investigator arrested him and literally shipped him back to Europe in heavy iron chains.
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