âA Short Account of the Destruction of the Indiesâ is an important and remarkable work, as well as the earliest documentation of a concerted effort to advocate for better and more humane treatment of the native people of the New World. What is the significance of Columbus identifying the New World of the Western Hemisphere with the New World of the Old Testament prophet and the New Testament’s Book of Revelation? Bartolome de Las Casas documented the ravages of the disease and greed the Spanish brought with them across the sea. Of the Kingdoms contained inHispaniola. Please re-enter recipient e-mail address(es). Read this book using Google Play Books app on your PC, android, iOS devices. Bartolome de Las Casas documented the ravages of the disease and greed the Spanish brought with them across the sea. http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Place\/latin_america> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Topic\/indians_treatment_of> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Topic\/spanish_colonies> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Place\/spain_america> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Topic\/indians_treatment_of_latin_america> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Place\/america> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Person\/casas_bartolome_de_las_1484_1566> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/id\/730144> ; http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/9781420963199> ; http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/1119987831> ; http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Person\/casas_bartolome_de_las_1484_1566>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Place\/america>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Place\/latin_america>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Place\/spain_america>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Topic\/indians_treatment_of>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Topic\/indians_treatment_of_latin_america>, http:\/\/experiment.worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/data\/730144#Topic\/spanish_colonies>, http:\/\/worldcat.org\/entity\/work\/id\/730144>, http:\/\/worldcat.org\/isbn\/9781420963199>, http:\/\/www.worldcat.org\/title\/-\/oclc\/1119987831>. And this was the great care they had of [the Indians]: they sent the men to the mines to dig for gold, which is an intolerable labor; the women they turned to tilling and manuring the ground, which is drudgery even to men of the strongest and most robust constitutions. Map of America (1540) Introduction.
Chicago (Author-Date, 15th ed.) A Note on Editions and on this Translation. Please enter the message. In A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Bartolomé de Las Casas vividly describes the brutality wrought on the natives in the Americas by the Europeans primarily for the purpose of proclaiming and spreading the Christian faith. Dominican Friar Bartolomé de Las Casas’s A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is a primary source on the genocide of indigenous peoples during Spanish colonization of the Americas. The authorities in Madrid did not approve. Whatever Spanish justifications, the Spanish conquistadores or conquerors proved brutal and rapacious as the conquest continued. Shop now. I really believe and am satisfied by certain undeniable conjectures, that at the very time when all these outrages were committed in this Isle, the Indians were not so much guilty of one single mortal sin of commission against the Spaniards, that might deserve from anyone such revenge. Bartolome de Las Casas, believed to have been born in 1484, immigrated to the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean from Spain in 1502 with his father and was ordained as a priest in 1510. Cuba. And as for those sins, the punishment of which God reserves to himself, such as the immoderate desire of revenge, hatred, envy or inward rancor of spirit, to which [the Indians] might be led against such capital enemies as the Spaniards, I judge that very few of [the Indians] can justly be accused of them; for their impetuosity and vigor, I know, to be inferior to that of children of ten or twelve years of age. Are de Vitoria’s arguments compatible with the Requerimiento’s or do they differ? They relieved Christopher Columbus of command over land he had discovered in part because of his brutality toward both Spanish settlers and the indigenous people. The men died in the mines, starved and oppressed with labor, and the women perished in the fields, broken from the same evils and calamities. Thus, the infinite number of inhabitants that formerly peopled this island were exterminated and dwindled away to nothing. The more time they spent in the Americas the more they diverted themselves with new ways of tormenting the Indians, improving in barbarism and cruelty. Constantino Brumidi, Bartolomé de Las Casas, 1876, Architect of the Capitol. For example, laws regulating conduct in the conquest were promulgated in 1513 and 1542 (the latter partially repealed in 1545 because of opposition). Statement True False The author of this document believes the natives of the Indies are violent. In 1542, Las Casas wrote to the Spanish crown, who at the time was Charles V, “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” which spoke of Spain's treachery towards the native peoples in the Spanish colonies, and asked for it to end.1 During the Spanish conquest of the New World—the region of North America and South America—the Spaniards establish dominance over the natives. By what authority did the Spanish make claims on the native people and their land? In a letter written soon after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus explained how he dealt with the natives and revealed his and Spain’s religious motive for exploring what he conceived to be, in explicitly religious terms (see Christopher Columbus to Doña Juana de Torres, 1500) a New World. Of Hispaniola, present day Haiti and the Dominican Republic. A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies, a letter written soon after his first voyage, Christopher Columbus to Doña Juana de Torres, 1500, The Nature, Importance, and Means of Eminent Holiness Throughout the Church. B. The subject field is required. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indiesby Friar Bartolomé de las CasasTHE LITERARY WORK A brief personal account written in 1542; published in Spanish (as Brevissima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) in 1552, in English in 1583.SYNOPSIS Bartolomé de las Casas reports to the King of Spain on the atrocities and injustices that Spanish soldiers have committed against the native people … Prologue (Preface) Hispaniola. Since the females were separated from and did not live with the men, there were no new births among them. His work with the Church gave him a startling glimpse into the cruelty and inhumanity that the native peoples were subjected to by the powerful Spaniards. His work with the Church gave him a startling glimpse into the cruelty and inhumanity that the native peoples were subjected to by the powerful Spaniards. He wrote A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies in 1542, a shocking catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. BreviÌsima relacioÌn de la destruccioÌn de las Indias. A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the torture, mistreatment and genocide of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas in colonial times. You may have already requested this item. Bartolomé de las Casas (A Short Description of the Destruction of the Indies, 1542) describes the consequences of the Spanish conquest. 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