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Bartolom de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his life to protecting... Read Full Overview

La brev sima relaci n de la destrucci n de las Indias es una cr nica que narra la extrema crueldad con la que los conquistadores trataron a los indios durante su llegada a Am rica. Es una historia de horror de la vida real sobre la cual no se abunda en los libros de texto, sino... Read Full Overview

The painful and violent testimony of cruelties incurred by the Spanish conquistadors in the new world, concisely depicted by Bartolome de Las Casas in his "Brevisima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias," is both a terrible accusation and a warning addressed at Prince Phillip... Read Full Overview

Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first--and most insistent--voices raised in that debate was that of a Spanish priest, Bartolom... Read Full Overview

Los tratados de Bartolom de las Casas son alegatos en favor de los indios. El m s c lebre de stos, Brev sima relaci n de la destrucci n de las Indias, no fue publicado hasta 1552. De las Casas se interesa por las condiciones de los habitantes aut ctonos del Nuevo Mundo y... Read Full Overview

La Brev sima relaci n de la destrucci n de las Indias es un libro escrito en 1552 por el fraile dominico espa ol Bartolom de las Casas, el principal defensor de los indios en Am rica, en el que denunci el efecto que tuvo para los naturales la colonizaci n de Espa a del Nuevo... Read Full Overview

The Reverend Author of this Compendious Summary was Bartholomaeus de las Casas alias Casaus, a Pious and Religeous person, (as appears by his zealous Transports in this Narrative for promotion of the Christian Faith) elevated from a Frier of the Dominican Order to sit in the... Read Full Overview

"A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" is the story of the Spanish Dominican priest Bartolome de las Casas, who came to the Americas in the 16th century. Immediately he was struck by the inhumane ways in which the native peoples were treated by the European explorers... Read Full Overview

Bartolom De Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his... Read Full Overview

La Brevisima relacion fue escrita por fray Bartolome de las Casas y dedicada al principe Felipe -quien fue posteriormente el rey Felipe II de Espana-, encargado por el rey Carlos V, su padre, de los asuntos de Indias por aquel tiempo. Con su obra, las Casas quiso que el futuro... Read Full Overview

Few people read the full account of De Las Casas. Frequently this piece is referenced in excerpts in anthologies. However, should the reader want an authentic and direct account of the real events of the Spaniards' treatment of native peoples of the Carribbean and elsewhere,... Read Full Overview

A description of tobacco: "a kind of dried herb, placed in a dried leaf, like a musket made of paper like those made by children for the feast of the Holy Spirit; and then, lighting one end, they take in from the other, by inhaling, the smoke, which numbs the flesh and almost... Read Full Overview

Bartolom De Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he witnessed that he dedicated his... Read Full Overview

Bartolome de las Casas's A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies stands as one of history's most damning narratives of Spanish colonization that was ever written. Las Casas chronicled gory details of Spanish mistreatment of the native American Indians, an abuse which... Read Full Overview