History That Unites
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The Columbus Case File
In 1500, Spain sent Columbus home in chains. Today he has a holiday, cities and statues. How? In eight interactive chapters, readers weigh sourced evidence, from a Christmas wreck on Haiti’s coast to the 1892 proclamation, and discover how a myth became an almost indelible legend. Ages 14+.
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What you'll learn
• Why Portugal's experts rejected Columbus's plan, and why they were right about the distance
• What happened on Christmas Eve 1492, when the Santa María wrecked off Haiti and the Taíno cacique Guacanagarí came to the crew's aid
• What Columbus wrote in his own journal and letters about the people he met
• Why Spain's investigator sent Columbus home in chains in 1500, based on the testimony of 23 witnesses
• The stories of Taíno resistance leaders Anacaona, Hatuey and Enriquillo, and the Spaniards who spoke out
• How the first recorded revolt of enslaved Africans in the Americas broke out on the estate of Columbus's son
• How poems, a bestselling biography and an 1892 presidential proclamation turned Columbus into an American hero
• How to weigh historical sources and reach a verdict of your own
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In 1500, Spain sent Columbus home in chains. Today he has a holiday, cities and statues. How? In eight interactive chapters, readers weigh sourced evidence, from a Christmas wreck on Haiti’s coast to the 1892 proclamation, and discover how a myth became an almost indelible legend. Ages 14+. Includes audio
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