A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Softcover

De Las Casas, Bartolome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 1975851498 ISBN 13: 9781975851491

Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform, 2017

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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 of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. Author: Bartolome de las Casas Language: English

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About the Author

Bartolomé de las Casas, (1484–1566), was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, writer and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists and pushed for rights of the natives appealing to the imperial court of Charles V. His stance for African slaves' rights was later than the one for native slavery.

About this edition

• Publisher: CreateSpace Independent Publishing Platform
• Publication date: 2017
• ISBN 10: 1975851498
• ISBN 13: 9781975851491
• Binding: Paperback
• Number of pages: 60