On October 12, 1492, Christopher Columbus stepped onto a beach in what is now the Bahamas and met the Taíno people for the first time.
Within two weeks, he had written this in his journal: “They would make fine servants.” That’s how Europeans thought back then. Anyone who wasn’t them was an NPC that existed to serve them.
That is the actual story of 1492. Not discovery. Not encounter. Not the meeting of two worlds. A Genoese sailor working for Spanish imperial capital looked at a civilization of human beings and calculated their value as labor.
Welcome to Unvarnished History.
