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A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies

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Number of Chapters: 21

Length: 4 hours and 02 minutes

Language: English

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 mistreatment of the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then Prince Philip II of Spain. One of the stated purposes for writing the account is his fear of Spain coming under divine punishment and his concern for the souls of the Native Peoples. The account is one of the first attempts by a Spanish writer of the colonial era to depict examples of unfair treatment that indigenous people endured in the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the Greater Antilles, particularly the island of Hispaniola. Las Casas's point of view can be described as being heavily against some of the Spanish methods of colonization, which, as he describes, have inflicted a great loss on the indigenous occupants of the islands. (Summary by Wikipedia)

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00 - The Argument of this Narrative by way of Preface to the Reader (Arnie Horton)
01 - The Cruelties of the Spaniards Committed in America (Arnie Horton)
02 - Of the Island Hispaniola (Arnie Horton)
03 - Of the Kingdoms contained in Hispaniola (Arnie Horton)
04 - Of the Isles of St. John and Jamaica (Arnie Horton)
05 - Of the Isle of Cuba (Arnie Horton)
06 - Of the Continent (Arnie Horton)
07 - Of the Province of Nicaraqua (Arnie Horton)
08 - Of new Spain (Arnie Horton)
09 - Of New Spain in Particular (Arnie Horton)
10 - Of the Kingdom and Province of Guatimala (Arnie Horton)
11 - A farther Discourse of New Spain: And some Account of Panuco and Xalisco (Arnie Horton)
12 - Of the Kingdom of Jucatan (Arnie Horton)
13 - Of the Province of St. Martha & Of the Province of Carthagena (Arnie Horton)
14 - Of the Pearl-Coast, Paria, and Trinity-Isle (Arnie Horton)
15 - Of the River Yuya Pari (Arnie Horton)
16 - Of the Kingdom of Venecuela (Arnie Horton)
17 - Of the Provinces of Florida (Arnie Horton)
18 - Of the Plate-River, that is, the Silver-River (Arnie Horton)
19 - Of the vast Kingdoms and Spatious Provinces of Perusia (Arnie Horton)
20 - Of the New Kingdom of Granada (Arnie Horton)
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