CHRISTOPHER COLUMBUS HERO OR VILLAIN?“It was a miracle that Christopher Columbus found America, but it would have been more of a miracle if he had not done so”, Mark Twain from Pudd' nhead Wilson's calendar mentioned. Genon born Cristobal da Colon and then called Christopher Columbus who ended up in the literatures of the times and with his own secret signatures but despite this his missions were read and discovered centuries after centuries. Christopher Columbus: hero or villain? there is a question. A question that very much defines the man: was he a ruthless man, a person without a soul and without human feelings, a man with exclusively personal motivations for his own gain or a man with feelings for others, a man who lived on the path of God , a man who valued his virtues of humanity, but often it is the good that a man does that is buried with his bones and the evil that lives afterwards as they say for Julius Caesar so for Christopher Columbus he is a villain and not a hero. As the new world was emerging, a deep need for wealth was growing in the ever-growing European powers, and they needed manpower to support the building of their empire. When Columbus decided to embark on his transoceanic voyage, his main intention was to establish a healthy transoceanic slave trade that would effectively help Europeans expand their kingdom. During Columbus' first voyage he established a base which he called "Hispaniola", which today is Haiti or also called the Dominican Republic. Early in the transoceanic slave trade, Columbus captured 10 to 20 Indians, sending them back but being left with only six or seven alive and the rest dead when they returned to the coast of Spain. Being subjected to this kind of… middle of paper… Huffington Post. Retrieved from http://www.huffingtonpost.com/eric-kasum/colum bus-day-a-bad-idea_b_742708.htmlHowarth, W. (1992). Put Columbus in his place. Southwest Review, 77(2/3), 153.Vizenor, G. (1992). Christopher Columbus: ports lost among the ruins of representation. American Indian Quarterly, 16(4), 521.Shurr, W. H. (1992). Irving and Whitman: re-historicizing the figure of Columbus in nineteenth-century America. Atq, 6(4), 237. Christopher Columbus: setting the record straight. (n.d.). About.com Native American History. Retrieved from http://nativeamericanhistory.about.com/od/nativeconcept sandperspectives/a/Christopher-Columbus-S-Legacy-Uncensored.htmde las Casas, Bartolome (1971). History of the Indies. New York: Harper & Row Las Casas, B. D. (n.d.). Brief report on the destruction of India. Spanish Empire. doi: 1552