A couple of years ago, one video blogger did a presentation on Christopher Columbus and how his bad deeds have been exaggerated to make him fit the role of a villain.
PHOTO CREDIT: Christopher Columbus on Santa Maria 1492 By Emanuel Leutze – http://mr_sedivy.tripod.com/explor2.htm, Public Domain, https://commons.wikimedia.org/w/index.php?curid=17318667