A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Title | A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolomé de las Casas |
Publisher | Open Road Media |
Pages | 96 |
Release | 2022-11-01 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1504078586 |
A Spanish friar documents the brutal treatment of Caribbean natives at the hands of colonial authorities in the sixteenth century. After traveling to the New World, Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas witnessed conquistadors wreak unimaginable horrors upon the Indigenous people of the Caribbean. He later dedicated his life to fighting for their protection. Following numerous failed attempts to reason with authorities in Spain, he chose to document everything he had seen over a span of fifty years and to give it to Spain’s Prince Philip II. In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Las Casas catalogues the atrocities he observed the Spanish colonial authorities inflict upon the native people. He discusses the brutal torture, mass genocide, and enslavement. He passionately pleas for an end to this treatment and for the native peoples to be given basic human rights.
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Title | A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolomé de las Casas |
Publisher | DigiCat |
Pages | 92 |
Release | 2022-08-15 |
Genre | Fiction |
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An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies
Title | An Account, Much Abbreviated, of the Destruction of the Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolomé De Las Casas |
Publisher | Hackett Publishing |
Pages | 189 |
Release | 2003-09-15 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 1603844945 |
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 Brevísima 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 Brevísima Relación catalogues in horrific detail atrocities it attributes to the king’s 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.
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Title | A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolome De Las Casas |
Publisher | Independently Published |
Pages | 42 |
Release | 2020-11-21 |
Genre | |
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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.
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Esprios Classics)
Title | A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Esprios Classics) PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolomé de Las Casas |
Publisher | Blurb |
Pages | 86 |
Release | 2020-12-12 |
Genre | |
ISBN | 9781034078463 |
Bartolomé de las Casas (11 November 1484 - 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish landowner, friar, priest, and bishop, famed as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman then became a Dominican friar and priest. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies. He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.
History of the Indies
Title | History of the Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolomé de las Casas |
Publisher | HarperCollins Publishers |
Pages | 340 |
Release | 1971 |
Genre | Biography & Autobiography |
ISBN |
The Devastation of the Indies
Title | The Devastation of the Indies PDF eBook |
Author | Bartolomé de Las Casas |
Publisher | JHU Press |
Pages | 158 |
Release | 1992-02 |
Genre | History |
ISBN | 9780801844300 |
Presents Bartolomé de Las Casas's 1552 account of the brutalities he witnessed, committed in the name of Christianity, on voyages to the Spanish colonies of the New World.