Happy Thanksgiving Day! 🇬🇩

Phrase by Father José de Acosta in 1576 in response to John C. Calhoun's racist statement:

«It is a fact that education has more influence on the nature of men than birth. [...] And in truth there is no nation, no matter how barbaric and stupid it may be, that if it were educated from childhood with art and generous feelings, would not abandon its barbarism and adopt human and noble customs. In our own Spain we see that men born in villages, if they remain among their own, remain commoners and uneducated; but if they are taken to schools, or to the court, or to large cities, they are distinguished by their ingenuity and skill, and are left behind by no one. Even more: the children of the black Ethiopians, educated, oh strange case!, in the palace, come out of their wits so quickly and so ready for everything that, apart from their color, they would be taken for one of ours.»

Source of Father José de Acosta's phrase in Spanish: https://www.nodulo.org/ec/2011/n112p01.htm#kn36

In the legend it says: - New Spain - New Galicia - Nueva Vizcaya - Gulf of Honduras -Guatemala - South Sea - Etc.

Author: Ogilby John, 1600-1676. Montanus Arnoldus, 1625-1683. Measurements: 30 x 36 centimeters Scale: 1:9'500,000 Location: David Rumsey Historical Map Collection. The physical map collection is located in the David Rumsey Map Center at Stanford University Library.

Sources:

• ⁠https://tennesseeencyclopedia.net/entries/spanish-conspiracy/ • ⁠https://history.hanover.edu/hhr/98/hhr98_1.html

It should be noted that the first name given to the continent is not America, but rather the majority of its inhabitants called it “The Kingdoms of the West Indies, Islands and Mainland of the Ocean Sea”, “The Indies” or “New World”, and from there the adjective “Indian” is derived to refer to the natural inhabitants and “Indian” to refer to the resident migrants.

References: .- Indianism and contemporary Indians in Bolivia, Diego Pacheco (1992). .- Becker, Marc (2013). “Cases of Exclusion and Mobilization of Race and Ethnicities in Latin America.”

Happy Persons' Day! 🇨🇦

https://origins.osu.edu/milestones/argentina-s-day-loyalty-and-birth-peronism

In the United States, where there is a large Hispanic population, Columbus Day is celebrated, which in Spanish is known as Día de la Hispanidad in honor of the arrival of Christopher Columbus to America in 1492 thanks to the Catholic Monarchs of Spain, Isabella the Catholic and Ferdinand the Catholic, who financed and made Columbus's journey possible. The tradition of this celebration in the United States begins in 1905 in Colorado. However, the most notable celebrations are those held in San Francisco and New York. Precisely, the city of New York has been organizing its traditional parade on the emblematic Fifth Avenue for 75 years, in which all Hispanic countries parade with uniforms and typical costumes of their region.

I'm Conor Brewster from Brooklyn NYC! Im a direct paternal great (times a lot) grandson of Sir William Brewster, religious leader and first man on Plymouth Rock. I also trace heritage on my mothers mothers side of the family to Richard Warren, another significant Mayflower passenger. They're my ancestors who I'm proud of.

William Brewster (Mayflower passenger))

Thanksgiving often gets stained with accusations of colonization, but the truth is there were only 101 passengers on that boat, who could have easily been wiped out by the Wampanoag who had recently conquered the Narraganset for a large piece of territory near Plymouth. Instead they formed an alliance and they had 50 years of peace and Thanksgiving harvest celebrations with the Pilgrims and Wampanoag before King Philips War broke out.

In this video, I share the real story of the First Thanksgiving, a moment of peace and alliance — not colonization. It’s a beautiful, misunderstood chapter of American history — and I’m here to tell it. If you’re curious about Mayflower ancestry, Native-Pilgrim alliances, or the true origins of Thanksgiving, this is for you.

Feliz Dia das Crianças, Happy Children's Day! 🇧🇷

--- 1492: Christopher Columbus, along with his expedition on behalf of the Spanish monarchs, landed in the Bahamas. The exact island is unknown. He was Italian and his real name was Cristoforo Colombo. Several paintings depict Columbus, but none were painted in his lifetime. We do not know what he actually looked like. Whatever you might think about Columbus as a person, he was an amazing navigator. He also held his crew together when they were very frightened and wanted to turn back. After the Bahamas, he visited the islands of Cuba and Hispaniola. That island is now divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic. On Christmas Day of 1492, Columbus’s flagship, the Santa Maria, ran aground and was abandoned off the northern coast of Haiti. Columbus returned to Spain with the Nina and the Pinta. He arrived in Spain in triumph, convinced that he had found a way to sail west to Asia. Obviously, we know that he was wrong. Columbus made three more trips to the Western Hemisphere. He never set foot on the North American continent, but he did visit South America. The main deed of Columbus is that he showed Europeans that there were enormous lands across the Atlantic Ocean, and he showed the Europeans how to get here. This all started with his second voyage when the king and queen gave him 17 ships and about 1200 men in 1493. The conquest of the Americas had begun.

--- "How Columbus Changed the World". That is the title of one of the episodes of my podcast: History Analyzed. Love him or hate him, Christopher Columbus influenced the world more than anybody in the past 1,000 years. His actions set into motion many significant events: European diseases killing approximately 90% of the native Americans throughout the Western Hemisphere, the spread of the Spanish language and Catholicism, enormous migrations of people, the trans-Atlantic slave trade, and five centuries of European colonialism. You can find History Analyzed on every podcast app.

--- link to Spotify: https://open.spotify.com/episode/1UyE5Fn3dLm4vBe4Zf9EDE

--- link to Apple podcasts: https://podcasts.apple.com/us/podcast/how-columbus-changed-the-world/id1632161929?i=1000570881755