A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies - Softcover

De Las Casas, Bartolome

Softcover

ISBN 10: 161949146X ISBN 13: 9781619491465

Verlag: EMPIRE BOOKS, 2011

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In 1542, a Spanish Dominican friar named Bartolome de las Casas wrote an account of the abuses enacted against the indigenous population of the New World by Spanish explorers. Fearing both for the souls of his own countrymen, and for the souls of the native peoples whom they had so brutally subjugated, de las Casas sent the document to Prince Philip II of Spain. “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” was responsible for a new set of laws abolishing native slavery in the Spanish colonies.

Biografía del autor:

Bartolomé de las Casas, (1484–1566), was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, writer and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists and pushed for rights of the natives appealing to the imperial court of Charles V. His stance for African slaves' rights was later than the one for native slavery.

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• Verlag: EMPIRE BOOKS
• Erscheinungsdatum: 2011
• ISBN 10: 161949146X
• ISBN 13: 9781619491465
• Einband: Tapa blanda
• Anzahl der Seiten: 92