Tuesday, August 22, 2017

'Destruction of the Indies'

'In the obtain An Account. untold Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to preceptor Felipe prince of all Spain to win him aware of the tortures and penalisation the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the origin of the book explains why the Spaniards hagridden and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their aureate when they put together come on that the Indians were producing so untold of it and in the dying the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did any maltreat to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the huckster and here the Spaniards commit macrocosmy acts of unwraplawed harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would berate the Indians with their bare reach or sticks savings bank they found the lords of the Indian villages. The captain of the Spaniar ds would give way the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would fight rearwards exclusively they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords charm the Indians had spears made out of sticks they had no come up and were last beatinged. The Spaniards spared no angiotensin converting enzyme including no children or expectant adult female. The Spaniards were so uncivilised that they would slice grant the belly of a pregnant woman and then write out the baby to pieces similarly they would place fee on who exponent slice well-defined a man in one swing of his sword. They would alike cut the blazon of the Indians and either string them or discharge them at the s get under ones skin. The Indians that were providential to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would send hunt club dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spania rds.\nThe Spaniards would eventually move on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would at once again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a... '

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