A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

By Bartolome de las Casas

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain.

• Language: English
• Publisher: JH
• Release date: Mar 24, 2019
• ISBN: 9788834112946

Bartolome de las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), was a sixteenth-century Dominican priest, writer, and 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 Indigenous people.

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