From My Eyes to Yours"The destruction of the ‘Indians’ of the Americas was, far and away, the most massive act of genocide in the history of the world. That is why, as one historian aptly has said, far from the heroic and romantic heraldry that customarily is used to symbolize the European settlement of the Americas, the emblem most congruent with reality would be a pyramid of skulls."
American Holocaust: Columbus and the Conquest of the New World - David E. Stannard.
One of the most powerful books I’ve read.
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adding it to my reading list.
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