by Andrew Rowen | Oct 12, 2026 | New York City
For Indigenous Peoples’ Day, I relate what is known about the Taíno Indians enslaved and sent to Spain by Columbus in 1498 and 1499 and then liberated by Queen Isabel’s decree of June 20, 1500 (summarized in my post of June 20) and returned home to “Española.” Only...
by Andrew Rowen | Aug 27, 2026 | New York City
Over the past months, I’ve been doing a podcast interview tour regarding Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise: 1498–1502 Retold and my prior books. You can find links to the podcasts already released on my website at https://www.andrewrowen.com/educators-events/....
by Andrew Rowen | Jul 24, 2026 | New York City
As depicted in Isabel, Anacaona & Columbus’s Demise, the ink on Queen Isabel’s decree of June 20, 1500, freeing “Indians” enslaved by Columbus (see prior post) had barely dried when Alonso de Hojeda sold two hundred Indians in Cádiz’s slave market. Isabel had...
by Andrew Rowen | Jun 20, 2026 | New York City
On June 20, 1500, five hundred twenty-six years ago today, Queen Isabel and King Fernando issued their sparse royal decree freeing “Indian” slaves whom Columbus had shipped to Spain and directing that the Indians be returned to “Española.” Previously, Isabel and...
by Andrew Rowen | May 20, 2026 | New York City
Columbus died in Valladolid, Spain, on May 20, 1506, five hundred twenty years ago today. During his lifetime, Queen Isabel’s court chroniclers and others who knew and wrote of him said that he was Genoese, from Genoa or its environs, and when they discussed his...
