Castilian Justice and Columbian Injustice: the End of the Government of Christopher Columbus in Hispaniola
Castilian Justice and Columbian Injustice: the End of the Government of Christopher Columbus in Hispaniola

Summary/Abstract: In 2006 Consuelo Varela and Isabel Aguirre, published the book La caída e Cristóbal Colón. El juicio de Bobadilla. In it they reproduced and transcribed a new historical source that has answered many questions regrding the first decade of Spanish rule in thwe West Indies under Christopher Columbus. The “Pesquisa” against Columbus was discovered by Aguirre in the Archivo General de Simancas, in Spain. The mistery of the true reasons that led to Columbus´ dismissal from office as Governor of the Isles of the Ocean Sea has been resolved. We have researched in the plot of the Columbus Brothers against the economic officials of Queen Isabella, and how the investigation performed by Bobadilla was done following Castilian law. The death sentences signed in of Hispaniola between 1493 and 1500 have been object of interest in order to judge th personal rule of the Columbus family members.

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