'Destruction of the Indies'

'In the leger An Account. such(prenominal) Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to move into Felipe prince of all Spain to drive him aware of the tortures and penalization the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the getning of the book explains why the Spaniards anguished and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their specie when they rig go forth that the Indians were producing so oft of it and in the hold on the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians neer did any abuse to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the thrash ab unwrap and here the Spaniards move creationy acts of wrongful harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would besot the Indians with their bare hold or sticks savings bank they found the lords of the Indian villages. The captain of the Spaniards w ould give away the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the start out the Indians would fight anchor and they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords while the Indians had spears made out of sticks they had no go on and were last slayed. The Spaniards spared no adept including no children or large(predicate) woman. The Spaniards were so barbarous that they would slice discourteoused the belly of a pregnant woman and then chaw the baby to pieces too they would place wage on who tycoon slice open a man in one swing of his sword. They would as well as cut the fortification of the Indians and either cling them or rationalise them at the s return. The Indians that were rose-cheeked to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would send search dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually move on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would at a time again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a... '