A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies  (1552)  by Bartolomé de las Casas

sister projects: Wikipedia article. 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 torture, mistreatment and genocide of the Indigenous Peoples of the Americas in colonial times. His eyewitness account is largely responsible for the passage of the new Spanish colonial laws known as the New Laws of 1542, which abolished native slavery for the first time in European colonial history. — Excerpted from A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies on Wikipedia, the free encyclopedia.

• Preface
• Chapter 1
• Chapter 2
• Chapter 3
• Chapter 4
• Chapter 5
• Chapter 6
• Chapter 7
• Chapter 8
• Chapter 9
• Chapter 10
• Chapter 11
• Chapter 12
• Chapter 13
• Chapter 14
• Chapter 15
• Chapter 16
• Chapter 17
• Chapter 18
• Chapter 19
• Chapter 20
• Chapter 21

This work published before January 1, 1923 is in the public domain worldwide because the author died at least 100 years ago.