A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the Indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and sent to then prince Philip II of Spain.
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seminal work documenting colonial atrocities
This influential 1542 pamphlet provided a graphic account of the abuses committed by Spanish colonizers, which helped shape the 'Black Legend' of Spanish colonial history.