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And why have you burnt our Gods, when others are brought from other Regions by the Spaniards? Are th...

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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

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Bartolomé de las Casas

Historian

Born: 1484-11-11

Died: 1566-07-18

Bartolomé de las Casas (November 1484 – July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focus particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.More