They Were Monsters In Their Own Time

Of course we can judge ‘historical figures’

Kenyans in a British concentration camp

The nine-year-olds taken as sex slaves by Christopher Columbus were not like ‘this is a great guy’. While they were being raped or beaten and thrown overboard, they certainly knew that these men were bad.

The people being starved to death in Bengal were not like, ‘Winston Churchill, that man deserves a…