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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies A catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind. Full descriptionRead More

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  • Foyles

    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 wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. Dedicated to Philip II to alert the Castilian Crown to these atrocities and demand that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind, this passionate work of documentary vividness outraged Europe and contributed to the idea of the Spanish 'Black Legend' that would last for centuries.

  • Penguin

    'Oh, would that I could describe even one hundredth part of the afflictions and calamities wrought among these innocent people by the benighted Spanish!' Bartolome de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World.

  • Blackwell

    In 1542, after years of witnessing Indian suffering and slavery, Bartolome de Las Casas wrote this indictment against European exploitation and mistreatment of the native peoples of the New World. The document was dedicated to Prince Philip of...

  • ASDA

    A catalogue of mass slaughter torture and slavery which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind.

  • Pickabook

    Bartolome de las Casas, Nigel Griffin (Editor), Nigel Griffin (Trans)

  • 0140445625
  • 9780140445626
  • Bartolome Las Casas
  • 25 March 2004
  • Penguin Classics
  • Paperback (Book)
  • 192
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