Who are the most evil humans in history whom most people have never heard of?
He described first landfall on Cuban shores, October 27, 1492:
“They are well-built, with good bodies and handsome features. They are the finest people on Earth, lacking any knowledge of evil. They neither murder nor steal [and] display the most singular loving behavior…always gentle and always laughing.
“They are ingenious and free with all they have; of anything they possess, if it be asked of them, they never say no. They are a very loving people and without covetousness. They are adaptable for every purpose, and I declare to your Highnesses that there is no better country or better people in the world than these.
“They do not bear arms and do not know them. They would make fine slaves. With fifty [armed] men we could subjugate them all and make them do whatever we will.”
.. Arguing the justice of the Spanish cause was court philosopher and theologian Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda. He had made a name for himself by promoting an axiom popular in the Spain of his day. “Just as Joshua was commanded by God to destroy the Canaanites for their idolatry,” he argued, “so too is it now God’s will that Spain destroy the Indians for theirs.” Cuba’s Taíno Indians, according to Ginés de Sepúlveda, were: