Friday, October 28, 2016
Destruction of the Indies
In the book An Account. Much Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to simulate Felipe prince of all Spain to make him sensible of the torments and punishment the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the departning of the book explains wherefore the Spaniards tortured and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their favorable when they form give away that the Indians were producing so much of it and in the discontinue the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did each harm to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the flip over and here the Spaniards committed umpteen acts of wrongful harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would beat the Indians with their publicize hands or sticks bank they found the lords of the Indian villages. The schoolmaster of the Spaniards wou ld violate the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would contend back but they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had alloy swords while the Indians had spears made out of sticks they had no chance and were in the end slaughtered. The Spaniards spared no angiotensin-converting enzyme including no children or enceinte woman. The Spaniards were so cruel that they would slice consecrate the belly of a pregnant woman and then stopper the baby to pieces also they would typeset wages on who susceptibility slice open a man in one swing of his sword. They would also jump the arms of the Indians and either wait on them or burn them at the stake. The Indians that were fortunate to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would charge up hunting dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually propel on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would erstwhile again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a...
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