Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies, A by Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 - 1566)
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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish:
Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account
written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in
1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of the indigenous
peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince
Philip II of Spain. One of the stated purposes for writing the
account is his fear of Spain coming under divine punishment and his
concern for the souls of the Native Peoples. The account is one of
the first attempts by a Spanish writer of the colonial era to
depict examples of unfair treatment that indigenous people endured
in the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the Greater
Antilles, particularly the island of Hispaniola. Las Casas's point
of view can be described as being heavily against some of the
Spanish methods of colonization, which, as he describes, have
inflicted a great loss on the indigenous occupants of the islands.
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