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Of the first 500 enslaved Indigenous people that Christopher Columbus sent back to Spain, 250 died en route.
Over the following decades, hundreds of thousands more died working in the gold mines and sugar plantations of Hispaniola and resisting Spanish domination.
Today, we honor their resistance.
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“Each Crueler Than the Last”
As protesters tear down statues and "experts" debate their merits, we review the deeds of Christopher Columbus and the tycoon who commissioned the statue of him in modern-day St. Louis.