A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Name: A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de las Casas

by Bartolomé de las Casas

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Translation of: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias

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Full title

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.

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Duration

~3 hours (180K characters)

Publisher of text edition

Project Gutenberg

Release date

2007-01-09

Rights

Public domain in the USA.

Subjects

Indians, Treatment of -- Latin America Spain -- Colonies -- America F1401

About the author

Bartolomé de las Casas

1484–1566

A fierce critic of colonial cruelty, this 16th-century friar used his voice and his pen to defend the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. His eyewitness writing still stands as one of the earliest and most powerful condemnations of imperial abuse.

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