History

This guy I think does a really great balanced overview of how some of the accusations against Columbus are exaggerated

The important thing to keep in mind is that we like to think in the same shoes we would be better. But much of what he did would have happened anyways eventually.

He was an imperfect product of his time but I don't see most of these evil things directly from him.

From his own mouth he thought the natives could be turned into Christians and made to be subjects like any other subject of the crown.

He called them intelligent and able to learn other languages.

To me this means he saw them at-least at the same level as the peasants of Europe and not like animals.