Oxford Bibliographies Online covers most subject disciplines within the social science and humanities, for more information visit www.oxfordbibliographies.com. 0000012256 00000 n 0000002317 00000 n Malnourishment and crowded conditions bred disease, but they also carried epidemics that decimated the indigenous populations they encountered and brought back new diseases like syphilis. 0000003401 00000 n Bartolomé de las Casas spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial abuse of indigenous peoples, especially by trying to convince the Spanish court to adopt a more humane policy of colonization. 23 0 obj << /Linearized 1 /O 25 /H [ 1460 362 ] /L 1026970 /E 487973 /N 3 /T 1026392 >> endobj xref 23 51 0000000016 00000 n stream 0000009421 00000 n %PDF-1.3 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. | download | B–OK. What might it mean to behold the world with such depth and feeling that it is no longer possible to imagine it as something separate from ourselves, or to live without regard for its well-being? A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolom� de Las Casas (SuperSummary), A Collection of Essays Dedicated to the Memory of Prof. Frederic McClintock, How Africans, Seminoles, Women, and Lower Class Whites Shaped the Sunshine State, Provides a contemporary account of the consequences of sixteenth-century Spanish colonialism in the New World, describing the abuse of the Indians by Spanish colonists. de las Casas, Felipe Guaman Poma, Sor Juana In?s de la Cruz, and Andr?s Bello, have been chosen for the merits of their writings, their participation in the larger literary and cultural debates of their times, and their resonance among readers today. Overview. 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. [6] The book was published when De Las Casas was sixty-seven years old. 0000101790 00000 n . 0000117873 00000 n AP Parts: Bartolome de las Casas "Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" (Main Idea) It is one of the first accounts of an advocate of Native rights. The author of this document is European. 0000010153 00000 n A Short Account Of The Destruction Of The Indies Read Online A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. "There are no unsacred places," the poet Wendell Berry has written. [6] His book, A Short Account, complicated the humanitarian and ethical arguments made in the 16th century by empathizing with indigenous people while recommending the use of enslaved African people in the Americas. A vivid account of the literary culture of the Spanish-speaking Americas from the time of Columbus to Latin American Independence, this Very Short Introduction explores the origins of Latin American literature in Spanish and tells the story of how Spanish literary language developed and flourished in the New World.