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Publicado por primera vez en Sevilla el 1552, estos tratados son junto con El Quijote, la obra más universal de las letras españolas. El texto de Bartolomé de Las Casas, es considerado el origen de la denominada 'leyenda negra' de la conquista española de América. Una obra de combate que denuncia sin tapujos las violencias y traiciones cometidas por los españoles contra los indios americanos, además de evidenciar la protesta humanitaria, plantea problemas de fondos sobre el encuentro entre civilizaciones, la retórica de justificación y la Estos tratados, algunos pasajes de los cuales ya se habían publicado en catalán en el siglo XVII, en pena agitación anticastellana de la Guerra de los Segadores, se recuperan ahora en el estudio introductorio de esta edición.

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"The Letters of Amerigo Vespucci, and Other Documents Illustrative of His Career" by Bartolomé de las Casas, Amerigo Vespucci, Christopher Columbus (translated by Sir Clements R. Markham). Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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"A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies" by Bartolomé de las Casas. Published by Good Press. Good Press publishes a wide range of titles that encompasses every genre. From well-known classics & literary fiction and non-fiction to forgotten−or yet undiscovered gems−of world literature, we issue the books that need to be read. Each Good Press edition has been meticulously edited and formatted to boost readability for all e-readers and devices. Our goal is to produce eBooks that are user-friendly and accessible to everyone in a high-quality digital format.

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Written in 1542 and first published in 1552, “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” by Bartolome de Las Casas, a Dominican friar, is a moving and shocking account of the atrocities and mistreatment suffered by the indigenous people of South America under Spanish colonial rule. Bartolome de Las Casas, believed to have been born in 1484, immigrated to the island of Hispaniola in the Caribbean from Spain in 1502 with his father and was ordained as a priest in 1510. His work with the Church gave him a startling glimpse into the cruelty and inhumanity that the native peoples were subjected to by the powerful Spaniards. Bartolome de Las Casas was determined to advocate for these oppressed people and traveled back and forth between Spain and the New World several times to bring the plight of the indigenous peoples to the attention of the King. Bartolome de Las Casas documented the ravages of the disease and greed the Spanish brought with them across the sea. “A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” is an important and remarkable work, as well as the earliest documentation of a concerted effort to advocate for better and more humane treatment of the native people of the New World.