Christopher Columbus sailed on ships and crews belonging to Isabella I, Queen regnant of Castile and León. Isabella & her husband Ferdinand II of Aragon, had just driven the Moers from the Iberian penisula. Being a Christian Kingdom with the support of the Pope, the Spainish ship sail bore the Holy Cross upon their sails. Spain kept the Cross on their sail for the next 300 years. Just as French ships had the Fleur-de-lis on their sails.
It means he is Catholic and showered by the queen of Spain at the time who have made space Catholic but I have a question for you: will you fight for the holy lands?
Two hundred years ago this month, the United States abolished the trans-Atlantic slave trade. Eric Foner, a historian at Columbia University, takes listeners inside the historical moment tied to one of America's darkest eras.