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 | #20906 in Books |  imusti |  1999-09-08 |  1992-11-03 | Original language:Spanish | PDF # 1 |  7.80 x.50 x5.00l,.31 | File type: PDF | 192 pages

 | Penguin Classics

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||3 of 3 people found the following review helpful.| For the strong-stomached|By krebsman|The European discovery of America was a catastrophe for the indigenous peoples. They suffered not only from their lack of immunity to the diseases the Europeans brought, but from the behavior of the low-life adventurers that such a risky operation attracted. At the murder of Montezuma, there was immediate outrage among the more enlightened|About the Author|Bartolome de las Casas was born in Seville around 1484. At the age of eighteen he left for the New World, where he participated in the conquest of Cuba and witnessed the first full-scale massacre of an Indian community. He became a prie

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 evangeli...

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