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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolomé de las Casas
- 123 pages
- English
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolomé de las Casas
About This Book
A Spanish friar documents the brutal treatment of Caribbean natives at the hands of colonial authorities in the sixteenth century.
After traveling to the New World, Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas witnessed conquistadors wreak unimaginable horrors upon the Indigenous people of the Caribbean. He later dedicated his life to fighting for their protection. Following numerous failed attempts to reason with authorities in Spain, he chose to document everything he had seen over a span of fifty years and to give it to Spain's Prince Philip II.
In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Las Casas catalogues the atrocities he observed the Spanish colonial authorities inflict upon the native people. He discusses the brutal torture, mass genocide, and enslavement. He passionately pleas for an end to this treatment and for the native peoples to be given basic human rights.
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Table of contents
- Title Page
- The Argument of this Narrative By way of Preface to the Reader.
- The Cruelties of the Spaniards Committed in America
- Of the Island Hispaniola
- Of the Kingdoms contained in Hispaniola
- Of the Isles of St. John and Jamaica
- Of the Isle of Cuba
- Of the Continent
- Of the Province of Nicaraqua
- Of new Spain
- Of New Spain in Particular
- Of the Kingdom and Province of Guatimala
- A farther Discourse of New Spain
- Of the Kingdom of Jucatan
- Of the Province of St. Martha
- Of the Province of Carthagena
- Of the Pearl-Coast, Paria, and Trinity-Isle
- Of the River Yuya Pari
- Of the Kingdom of Venecuela
- Of the Provinces of Florida
- Of the Plate-River, that is, the Silver-River
- Of the vast Kingdoms and Spatious Provinces of Perusia
- Of the New Kingdom of Granada
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