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    Prosecution Closing Essay

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    The prosecution argues that Columbus should not be celebrated as a hero for three key reasons: 1) He supervised the sexual enslavement of young native girls, casually writing about it in his diary. 2) Upon arriving in the Americas, he seized the land and enslaved the peaceful Arawak tribe, subjecting them to brutal treatment. Within two years, half the Arawak population was wiped out. 3) When the Arawaks could no longer mine gold due to deaths, Columbus deported the survivors and established the transatlantic slave trade, showing he was responsible for many murders, even if not directly killing them. The prosecution contends Columbus committed numerous cruel and criminal acts against innocent people.

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    The prosecution argues that Columbus should not be celebrated as a hero for three key reasons: 1) He supervised the sexual enslavement of young native girls, casually writing about it in his diary. 2) Upon arriving in the Americas, he seized the land and enslaved the peaceful Arawak tribe, subjecting them to brutal treatment. Within two years, half the Arawak population was wiped out. 3) When the Arawaks could no longer mine gold due to deaths, Columbus deported the survivors and established the transatlantic slave trade, showing he was responsible for many murders, even if not directly killing them. The prosecution contends Columbus committed numerous cruel and criminal acts against innocent people.

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    The prosecution argues that Columbus should not be celebrated as a hero for three key reasons: 1) He supervised the sexual enslavement of young native girls, casually writing about it in his diary. 2) Upon arriving in the Americas, he seized the land and enslaved the peaceful Arawak tribe, subjecting them to brutal treatment. Within two years, half the Arawak population was wiped out. 3) When the Arawaks could no longer mine gold due to deaths, Columbus deported the survivors and established the transatlantic slave trade, showing he was responsible for many murders, even if not directly killing them. The prosecution contends Columbus committed numerous cruel and criminal acts against innocent people.

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    Prosecution Closing Essay

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    The prosecution argues that Columbus should not be celebrated as a hero for three key reasons: 1) He supervised the sexual enslavement of young native girls, casually writing about it in his diary. 2) Upon arriving in the Americas, he seized the land and enslaved the peaceful Arawak tribe, subjecting them to brutal treatment. Within two years, half the Arawak population was wiped out. 3) When the Arawaks could no longer mine gold due to deaths, Columbus deported the survivors and established the transatlantic slave trade, showing he was responsible for many murders, even if not directly killing them. The prosecution contends Columbus committed numerous cruel and criminal acts against innocent people.

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    Prosecution: Closing Essay

    To wrap up this trial, I would like to start off by saying that Columbus didn’t actually
    discover the Americas. It has been proven that the Vikings stepped foot on that land first and that
    makes him no hero. Columbus has done many horrible deeds which no one should’ve gone
    through, but sadly because of him many innocent people went through things that have scarred
    them for the rest of their lives.
    I would like to start off with the fact that Columbus has supervised the selling of young
    native girls into sexual slavery. This is really sickening because they looked for girls around the
    ages 9-10 and most of the men had desire for girls that age. It’s disgusting that Columbus has
    supervised this because many of those poor, innocent, and young girls could’ve achieved many
    things in life but sadly were sold to old men for their pleasure. If Columbus wanted to be a hero
    then he should’ve stopped this horrible crime instead of encouraging it. If you think about, those
    girls could’ve been anyone’s daughter and sister which makes it really sad because at this young
    age they had to go through something so disgusting. Even in Columbus’ log he casually wrote
    about this huge crime as if it was no big deal, when in reality it was. In his diary he wrote, “A
    hundred castellanoes are easily obtained for a women as for a farm. And it is very general and
    there are plenty of who go around looking for girls, those from 9-10 are in demand”. Is he going
    to deny his own diary entry or going to make up an excuse? His diary really showed the dark
    side of Columbus. It might didn’t affect him in any way because his men were happy which
    means there aren’t any issues. He never cared about any of the natives that were severely being
    affected by his actions because he was getting whatever he needs which were, girls, gold, and
    land.
    The next thing that I would like to point out is that when he found the Americas, he
    seized the tribe living there (Arawaks) and seized their land. Not only that but he also enslaved
    them. First of all, he enters THEIR land and enslaves the owners of that land. Columbus
    should’ve respected them and made a fair decision with the Arawaks instead of making them
    into their slaves. Columbus basically took advantage because the Arawaks were a really kind,
    gentle and peaceful tribe. It was really disrespectful of him to do that because when one of his
    ships (the santa maria) got shipwrecked, they helped him fix it up. Within 2 years of Columbus
    arriving to the New World, half the population of the original natives were wiped out. The reason
    behind that is Columbus. All of those poor lives passed away because Columbus forced them to
    work in Gold Mines. While working, many died of exhaustion because that’s why hard he would
    make them work. I think what Columbus did wasn’t fair at all because the Arawaks wanted
    peace and helped them in many ways and this is how Columbus pays them back. If someone
    gives someone else kindness they expect kindness but all they got was hatred. It would’ve been
    reasonable if the Arawaks were really mean to them from the start which caused the hatred and
    cruelness but they did nothing wrong, which makes Columbus the crueler one since he enslaved
    them without any specific reason.
    When Columbus started running out of natives for gold mining he deported the rest of the
    population to an island called Haiti, leaving all the islands deserted. Once the slaves that were
    deported from Puerto Rico and Cuba started dying out due to work and torture, he looked over to
    Africa and established what was known as the transatlantic slave trade. That shows that
    Columbus is guilty of many murders even if he didn’t actually kill them. He made them work so
    hard in the heat that they all eventually died a horrible death. He didn’t even care about their
    deaths and just kept getting more and more from different places around the world. He has a lot
    of blood on his hands and many crimes were done by him. It’s sad how he tortured/killed so
    many innocents but Queen Isabella still excused all of them.
    Also, all of this information that I have put in front of you, doesn’t only show you my
    point but it’s to show what all of these locales have been through because of Columbus. Our
    witnesses clearly proved what we have to say about Columbus’s heinous deeds.
    Works cited:

    Klein, Christopher. "The Viking Explorer Who Beat Columbus to America." ​History.com​.
    Television Networks, 2013. Web. 16 Nov. 2016.

    Hartmann, Thom. "Columbus Day Celebration? Think Again..." ​Common Dreams​. 11 Oct. 2004.
    Web. 16 Nov. 2016.
     
    Zinn, Howard. "Columbus, The Indians, and Human Progress." ​Columbus, The Indians, and
    Human Progress​. Web. 16 Nov. 2016.

    Christoforo-Mitchell, Rose. "91.02.06: The Heritage and Culture of Puerto Ricans." ​91.02.06:
    The Heritage and Culture of Puerto Ricans​. 2016. Web. 16 Nov. 2016.

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