1. Columbus was trying to find a route to China to circumvent the silk road
2. Slavery was endemic globally, including in the America’s at the time.
So spare me your moral indignation about the horror of it, since it existed in the America’s before Chris ever showed up...
Columbus sailed on the Pinta, Nina, and Santa Maria, which translates roughly “A portrait of a little girl, Holy Mary”.
Only about 40 years later Our Lady of Guadalupe appeared, converting millions of native Americans to Catholicism. And what did she leave mankind on a piece of cloth lighted by a mysterious colored light that has survived for over 500 years?
A nice portrait of a little girl Holy Mary.