An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
by Bartolomé De Las Casas
2020-11-20 00:51:09
An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
by Bartolomé De Las Casas
2020-11-20 00:51:09
Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his BrevÃsima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An...
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Fifty years after the arrival of Columbus, at the height of Spain's conquest of the West Indies, Spanish bishop and colonist Bartolomé de Las Casas dedicated his BrevÃsima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias to Philip II of Spain. An impassioned plea on behalf of the native peoples of the West Indies, the BrevÃsima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the kingâs colonists in the New World. The result is a withering indictment of the conquerors that has cast a 500-year shadow over the subsequent history of that world and the European colonization of it.
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