· Fearing both for the souls of his own countrymen, and for the souls of the native peoples whom they had so brutally subjugated, de las Casas sent the document to Prince Philip II of Spain. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies was responsible for a new set of laws abolishing native slavery in the Spanish colonies/5(). · A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Bartolome Las Casas. Penguin UK, - History - pages. 4 Reviews. Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the /5(4). A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indiesby Friar Bartolomé de las CasasTHE LITERARY WORK A brief personal account written in ; published in Spanish (as Brevissima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) in , in English in SYNOPSIS Bartolomé de las Casas reports to the King of Spain on the atrocities and injustices that Spanish soldiers have committed against the.
Bartolomé de las Casas A SHORT ACCOUNT OF THE DESTRUCTION OF THE INDIES written , published * [EXCERPTS] PRESENTATION by Bishop don Fray Bartolomé de las Casas or Casaus, to the most high and potent lord Prince of all the Spains don Felipe, our. Bartolome de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies () The Americas were discovered in , and the first Christian settlements established by the Spanish the following year. It is accordingly forty-nine years now since Spaniards began arriving in numbers in this part of the world. Bartolomé de las Casas (A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies, ) describes the consequences of the Spanish conquest. Las Casas participated in the conquest he recounts; he was also in Cuba during the conquest of that island. He eventually became a Dominican friar and worked for the rest of his life to protect the indigenous.
Title: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations. More famous than these ventures was Las Casas’s writing of letters, arguments, debates, a history, a description of native cultures, and the impassioned, violent, propagandistic A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Dominican Friar Bartolomé de Las Casas’s A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is a primary source on the genocide of indigenous peoples during Spanish colonization of the Americas. This account of Las Casas, who spent much of his life in the New World, specifically spans the years , with some reference to the years between and , when the book was published.
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