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Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
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Title: Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Author: Bartolomé de Las Casas
ISBN: 9780140445626
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 192
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: In 1542, after years of witnessing Indian suffering and slavery--and the failure of his own attempts to create a humane settlement--Las Casas wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies." A work of great passion and documentary vividness, it embodies his belief that the early evangelizing vision of Christopher Columbus (whose diaries he preserved and edited) was corrupted by later conquistadores into a genocidal colonization. Like a distant forefather of the Enlightment, he argues that the Indians should be regarded as human, and entitled to the basic rights of mankind.
Author: Bartolomé de Las Casas
ISBN: 9780140445626
Publisher: Penguin Classics
Published: 1992
Binding: Paperback
Language: English
Edition: First Edition
Number of Pages: 192
Condition Note: Moderate edge wear. Binding good. May have marking in text. We sometimes source from libraries. We ship in recyclable American-made mailers. 100% money-back guarantee on all orders.
Publisher Description: In 1542, after years of witnessing Indian suffering and slavery--and the failure of his own attempts to create a humane settlement--Las Casas wrote "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies." A work of great passion and documentary vividness, it embodies his belief that the early evangelizing vision of Christopher Columbus (whose diaries he preserved and edited) was corrupted by later conquistadores into a genocidal colonization. Like a distant forefather of the Enlightment, he argues that the Indians should be regarded as human, and entitled to the basic rights of mankind.
