Timeline
Lifetime:
1484 -
1566
Passed: ≈
458 years ago
Title
Writer
Country/Nationality
Bartolomé de las Casas
Books by Bartolomé de las Casas
Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
History
Non-Fiction
Religion
Slavery
History
Religion
Justice
Genocide
Colonialism
Human Rights
Caribbean
Americas
Indigenous
Exploitation
Spanish Conquest
Bartolomé de las Casas's *A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies* offers a harrowing and unflinching indictment of Spanish colonial practices in the Americas. Written in 1542, the account details the brutal treatment endured by indigenous p...
Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias
History
Philosophy
Political Science
Non-Fiction
Slavery
Ethics
Colonialism
Human Rights
Indigenous Rights
A scathing indictment of the Spanish conquest of the Americas, "Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias" provides a firsthand account of the atrocities committed by the conquistadors. Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican friar who witnessed...