The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence,… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times:… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed. — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian… — Bartolome de las Casas Copy Share Image
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