Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust: Slavery and the Rise of European Capitalism

"Christopher Columbus and the Afrikan Holocaust," by John Henrik Clarke, shatters the hero's-journey narrative surrounding Columbus, exposing him as an architect of exploitation. The book recasts the "discovery" of America as a brutal invasion, paving the way for centuries of Indigenous suffering and laying the groundwork for the African Holocaust - the transatlantic slave trade.

Clarke argues that neither Indigenous nor African subjugation was incidental. Instead, they were calculated moves...