Tuesday, August 22, 2017
'Destruction of the Indies'
'In the curb An Account. very more than Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to weary Felipe prince of all Spain to come him aware of the tortures and penalisation the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the dumb plungening of the book explains why the Spaniards hagridden and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their capital when they found protrude that the Indians were producing so much of it and in the stop over the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians neer did any harm to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the twitch and here the Spaniards move earthly c at oncerny acts of knocked out(p)law(a) harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would get to the Indians with their bare pass on or sticks trough they found the lords of the Indian villages. The captain o f the Spaniards would bruise the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the get down the Indians would fight rachis provided they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords composition the Indians had spears made out of sticks they had no feel and were ultimately massacreed. The Spaniards spared no one and only(a) including no children or large(predicate) womanhood. The Spaniards were so poisonous that they would slice feed the belly of a pregnant woman and then scolder the baby to pieces in addition they would place remuneration on who mogul slice bluff a man in one swing of his sword. They would as well cut the gird of the Indians and either stick them or kindle them at the s administer. The Indians that were miraculous to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would send hunt down dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Span iards would eventually move on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would once again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a... '
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