Bartolome de Las Casa - A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Preparer's notes:
1) Though the original title does not appear in this version, this is...
the use of my Christian faith as a ruse of the Spaniards in the Indies to justify their agenda of greed and destruction.
It is my personal inclination that...
focus of Las Casas' work is the mistreatment of the Native Americans. Throughout the Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Las Casas offers, in vivid detail...
best for his flaming indictment of Spanish cruelty to the Indians, Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (1552), a work based largely on official reports...
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A brief Destruction of the Indies
Bartolome' De Las Casas stated that "those who have traveled to this part of the world pretending to be Christians have uprooted...
of the Indies
Bartolomé De Las Casas describes many horrific actions carried out by Spanish Christians against Indians living on the island of The Hispaniola in...
power on the land and to acquire gold. The Spanish used force to obtain more. In Hispaniola they killed many people; the men were killed, but the women and children...
through the Christians who have gone out to the Indies.
"The Middle Passage", from Olaudah Equiano's Interesting Narrative
This account of the "middle passage...
is not it.
Works Cited
De Las Casas, Bartolomé A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Penguin Classics1992
Dutto, Rev. L. A. The Life of Bartolomé...
?node_id=1214011Las Casas was fully aware of the agenda behind A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, and he consciously directed every word of it towards...
is rife with accounts of rivalry, jockeying for positions, mutiny and betrayal.[5]
Upon his arrival in 1504 in Santo Domingo, the capital of Hispaniola, the 18...
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Las Casas, a book of the greatest and ultimate necessity, was written to demonstrate that there was no people on...
was in the Bahamas archipelago. He explored and endeavored to create a settlement on the island of Hispaniola. With Columbuss discovery of the New World, it was th...
in 1552 Las Casas published eight tracts, including his Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies he had written ten years earlier. Unlike most of his writing...
Columbus was a villain because his discovery of the Americas eventually leads to the destruction of Native American culture, he was not the first European explorer...
By Stephen Greenblatt
^quote on page 2 found on page 52^
A short account of the destruction of the Indies By Bartolomé de las Casas
Columbus: Letter to Louis...
in 1495 and 1496 also contributed to the low immune system of the Tainos. In Hispaniola, the first recorded outbreak of smallpox was in 1507. There are several main...
In 1598 Theodore de Bry republished Bartolome de Casas Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (text 38-39) which helped win supporters for the Protestant...
