A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

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…

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