Reading 5 Looping Sketchbook

As I went through my school years until high school, I had a different view of who Christopher Columbus was. “The aim was clear: slaves and gold.” (Zinn, H., & Stefoff, R. (2009). A young people’s history of the United States: Columbus to the War on Terror. New York: Seven Stories Press.) I was always told that he was the one that discovered America and he was looking for gold, but I did not know the fact that he was killing the Indians because he wanted them to find and give them the gold and eventually he took them as slaves. I was never told that he killed the people who he thought they were from India. A misconception I had before was that I thought he had landed in the United States, but it was at the Bahamas which is considered the Americas. A map would be useful to show students where exactly he landed, even though that doesn’t take away the fact of what he did to innocent people just for the greed of gold. Today, we are in a new world where everything is different. We did used to have slavery, but that’s something that changed with time with the help of people who wanted to change the world. Now is more of crimes that we see that it targets anyone. We can say that there might be people who are greedy and do the things the right way, or they just steal to make it easier for them.