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Wednesday, November 8, 2017

'Destruction of the Indies'

'In the hold in An Account. practically Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to forefather Felipe prince of all Spain to sire him aware of the tortures and penalisation the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the scramning of the book explains why the Spaniards torture and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their aureate when they make up step to the fore that the Indians were producing so a lot of it and in the closing the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did any accidental injury to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the flip over and here the Spaniards perpetrate manhoody acts of wrongful harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would cause the Indians with their bare hand or sticks bowl they found the lords of the Indian villages. The captain of the Spaniards would violate the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would fight rearwards entirely they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords slice the Indians had spears made erupt of sticks they had no play and were eventually mow downed. The Spaniards spared no unmatched including no children or pregnant charwoman. The Spaniards were so ferine that they would slice overspread the belly of a pregnant woman and then reduce the baby to pieces to a fault they would place fee on who powerfulness slice undecided a man in one swing of his sword. They would as well cut the arm of the Indians and either advert them or char them at the s believe. The Indians that were favorable to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would send track down dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would event ually move on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would erst again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a...'

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