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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies / Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them. — Bartolomé de las Casas

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies / Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first Discovery by them.

Bartolomé de las Casas

  • History
  • Book language: English
  • 89 pages

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas is a 16th-century historical narrative and testimony. It describes the brutal treatment and massacres of indigenous peoples in the Americas by Spanish colonizers. It remains a significant primary source for understanding the early colonial period and debates on human rights.

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Cover of the original edition (Project Gutenberg, public domain).

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[Preparer's notes:

1) Though the original title does not appear in this version, this is (apart from the preface) a translation of:

"Brevisima relacion de la destruccion de las Indias", by

Bartolome de las Casas, originally published in Seville in 1552.

2) The original archaic spelling and punctuation has been retained]

POPERY

Truly Display'd in its

Bloody Colours:

Or, a faithful

NARRATIVE

OF THE

Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of

Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish

Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India

TOGETHER

With the Devastations of several Kingdoms in America by Fire and

Sword, for the space of Forty and Two Years, from the time of its first

Discovery by them.

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Composed first in Spanish by Bartholomew de las Casas, a Bishop there, and Eye-Witness of most of these Barbarous Cruelties; afterward

Translated by him into Latin, then by other hands, into High-Dutch, Low-

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