Historical testimony and moral protest
A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias
Bartolomé de las Casas, O.P. 1484–1566An urgent eyewitness indictment of conquest, enslavement, and violence against Indigenous peoples in the Americas.
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Las Casas wrote to move rulers and consciences against colonial atrocities. The surviving 1689 English edition wraps his work in anti-Catholic polemical paratext and uses highly archaic language; the source is therefore cataloged with that warning, and the author’s text will be separated from later framing before reader excerpts appear.
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