Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust

Wow. This book goes HARD. I first got a better understanding about the true evils of Christopher Columbus after reading “Guns, Germs, and Steel: The Fates of Human Societies” by Jared Diamond (1997), “A People's History of the United States” (2004 edition) by Howard Zinn, “An Indigenous Peoples' History of the United States” by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz (2014), and “Lies My Teacher Told Me: Everything Your American History Textbook Got Wrong “ by James W. Loewen (2008). All fantastic books I would highly recommend.
So I already knew he was a bad dude. But because it's Indigenous Peoples Day weekend, I figured I'd read a short book just about him. But this book...this book cranks it to 11 at the jump. It does not hold its punches against Columbus, the church, colonialists, capitalists, anyone. It's awesome. Reading through the author's Wikipedia page and watching some videos of interviews with him, it's no wonder he'd write something this unabashedly provocative. He was an amazing professor and historian that tried to right the wrongs of the US's Eurocentric historical understanding.
Christopher Columbus was a bad guy. He personally participated in the genocides of countless people on two different continents. Don't take my word for it. You can read his own journal to see how ruthlessly evil he was. He didn't discover shit. You cannot discover places where people already exist. Furthermore, he didn't know he “discovered” a new place, AND he wasn't the first European to show up. He destroyed more cultures than he helped create.
What he did do was spearhead (and personally participate in) the genocides of the natives of North America and the genocides of native Africans. He was ruthless and cruel. He set into motion the beginnings of capitalism, commodifying human beings and slaughtering those who disobey.
I'll be checking out some more stuff by this author and some books he recommended in his interviews and in this book. His call for Pan-Africanism is really interesting and a subject I know disappointingly little about.
Highly recommended to anyone who wants to actually understand this history of the founding of the USA and not the whitewashed bullshit they teach in school.