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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

By Bartolomé de Las Casas, Nigel Griffin (Editor), Nigel Griffin (Translator), Anthony Pagden (Introduction)
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By Bartolomé de Las Casas, Nigel Griffin (Editor), Nigel Griffin (Translator), Anthony Pagden (Introduction)
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Bartolomé 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 the Indian community. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descen...

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