1493
ColonizationBook sources
Columbus returns with a colonizing fleet
Hispaniola; Indigenous Caribbean communities
Columbus sailed from Cádiz in September 1493 with a much larger expedition intended for settlement. It returned to Hispaniola and established La Isabela during the second voyage. The expedition expanded Spain’s colonial presence on an inhabited island.
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Context / qualification
1493 dates the expedition’s departure and return to the Caribbean; La Isabela’s establishment extended into 1494. La Isabela itself did not endure indefinitely. The large shipment of Indigenous captives described by Zinn belongs to 1495 and is discussed under E234.
Sources
- Roxanne Dunbar-Ortiz, An Indigenous Peoples’ History of the United States (2014), chapter 2
- Howard Zinn, A People’s History of the United States, chapter 1, pp. 3–4; supplied print pages, edition/year unidentified
- Diego Álvarez Chanca, letter on the second voyage; in Olson and Bourne, The Northmen, Columbus and Cabot (1906), pp. 283–284, 307–308 ↗