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The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career
by Bartolomé de las Casas, Christopher Columbus, Amerigo Vespucci
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Project Gutenberg
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Produced by Free Elf, Joseph Cooper, David Garcia and the Online Distributed Proofreading Team at https://www.pgdp.net
Release date
2011-07-31
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Public domain in the USA.
About the authors
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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Christopher Columbus
1451–1506
A Genoese mariner in the service of Spain, he made four Atlantic voyages that permanently linked Europe and the Americas in the historical imagination. His life remains central to stories of exploration, empire, and the lasting consequences of contact between worlds.
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Amerigo Vespucci
1451–1512
Best known as the explorer whose name became attached to the Americas, he was a Florentine merchant and navigator who helped Europeans rethink the lands across the Atlantic. His letters and voyages made him one of the most talked-about figures of the Age of Exploration.
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