A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

By Bartolome de las Casas

"A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the European explorers and conquerors, Las Casas

• Language: English
• Publisher: Cedar Lake Classics
• Release date: Sep 22, 2022
• ISBN: 9781611045420

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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