‘Christopher Columbus, born in Genoa in 1451, worked on Portuguese ships from the age of ten, joining the crews of slave expeditions by 1482. He also worked as a clerk for a Genoese merchant, selling Portuguese sugar cultivated by enslaved Africans on the Portuguese colony of Madeira.’ 📚 Bibliography: 📕 1491: New Revelations of the Americas Before Columbus by Charles C. Mann 📕 A History of the Upper Guinea Coast 1545-1800 by Walter Rodney 📕 America by Jean Baudrillard 📕 An African American and Latinx History of the United States by Paul Ortiz 📕 An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States by Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz 📕 A People’s History of the United States by Howard Zinn 📕 Black AF History: The Un-Whitewashed Story of America by Michael Harriot 📕 Border and Rule: Global Migration, Capitalism, and the Rise of Racist Nationalism by Harsha Walia 📕 Democracy for the Few by Michael Parenti 📕 Endless Holocausts: Mass Death in the History of the United States Empire by David Michael Smith 📕 From Capture to Sale: The Portuguese Slave Trade to Spanish South America by Linda A. Newson and Susie Minchin 📕 Harvest of Empire: A History of Latinos in America by Juan Gonzalez 📕 La Caída de Cristóbal Colón by Consuelo Varela 📕 La Relación by Álvar Núñez Cabeza de Vaca 📕 Malintzin’s Choices by Camilla Townsend 📕 Parker on the Iroquois by Arthur C. Parker 📕 Portuguese in West Africa, 1415-1670: A Documentary History Edited by Malyn Newitt 📕 The Dawn of Everything: A New History of Humanity by David Graeber and David Wengrow 📕 The Rediscovery of America: Native Peoples and the Unmaking of U.S. History by Ned Blackhawk 📕 The Slave Trade by Hugh Thomas 📕 These Truths: A History of the United States by Jill Lepore
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