american-holocaust

SEX, RACE AND HOLY WAR 193together probably numbering a good deal fewer than a hundred-were notat that moment being pursued by the law, although, no doubt, they werea far from genteellot. 131The three small ships left the harbor at Palos "half an hour beforesunrise," Columbus noted in his journal of August 3rd, "and took theroute for the Canary Islands," passing as they went the last Jewish stragglerswho were being driven out of their homeland by way of the opensea. 132 This tiny ragtag fleet, representing a nation that was not much betterthan destitute and a Church that was in disgrace, was off on its imperialand holy mission. The world would never again be the same: beforelong, the bloodbath would begin.