Areas Quote by Bartolome de las Casas
“Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the survivors into slavery, where they duly perished, so that today not a trace remains of what was previously a community with dominion over an area of some thirty leagues.”
![“Following Emporer Nero's command, "Let the Christians be exterminated!:" . . . they [the Christians] were made the subjects of sport; they were covered with the hides of wild beasts and worried to death by dogs, or nailed to crosses or set fire to, and when the day waned, burned to serve for the…” quote by Tacitus](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/b48/tacitus-1552_beast_following-emporer-nero-s-command-let-the_2695538.jpg)
![“The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and to this goal everything temporal must necessarily be subordinated and directed.” quote by Bartolome de las Casas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/469/bartolome-de-las-casas-39700_allowing_the-main-goal-of-divine-providence-in-al_2379655.jpg)
![“What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slaves] as one of the most unjust, evil, and cruel among them.” quote by Bartolome de las Casas](https://sms4smile.com/quotes/img-quotes/e98/bartolome-de-las-casas-39700_committed_what-we-committed-in-the-indies-stands-o_2540107.jpg)
