By all accounts Columbus we a pretty brutal task-master, even for his time. However, that is probably what it took to have the guts to make such a voyage in the first place.
I hate it when people say Columbus brought genocide (meaning diseases) because in his day they did not know about germs and bacteria and viruses at all and had no way of knowing or predicting that the introduction of such things (which they didn’t know about) would kill so many people.
At the end of the day, people are just angry at history, as if that will change anything. Any number of bad things were done throughout history, mixed in with the good things ... which brought us to where we are today. Without all the stuff that happened before, both good and bad, we would not be here living as we do now. You can play What-If forever but it doesn’t change anything.
So people just have to accept that history is what it is. It is immutable. The ONLY direction we can go in is forward ... as it was in Columbus’ day, as it ever was and ever will be.
It is sad that the Spaniards thought there was gold on the island of Hispaniola, and worked the Taino to extinction in the mines.
There is a museum to Columbus, for which the roof is designed with a huge cross of skylights. When lit from within, it is said that the building is visible from space.