Destruction of the Indies

In the take for An Account. Much Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to fall apart Felipe prince of all Spain to make him mindful of the overrefinements and punishment the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the demoralisening of the book explains why the Spaniards tortured and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards wanted their alloy(prenominal) when they launch divulge that the Indians were producing so much of it and in the cobblers last the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did whatsoever harm to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the riff and here the Spaniards committed many acts of wrongful harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would beat the Indians with their plain hands or sticks gutter they found the lords of the Indian villages. The master of the Span iards would violate the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would chip back but they were no match for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords while the Indians had spears made out of sticks they had no chance and were at last slaughtered. The Spaniards spared no star including no children or significant woman. The Spaniards were so cruel that they would slice undefendable the belly of a pregnant woman and then burn the baby to pieces also they would habitation wages on who baron slice open a man in one swing of his sword. They would also runway the arms of the Indians and either hang them or burn them at the stake. The Indians that were fortunate to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would vent hunting dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually hunt on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaic a where they would erst again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a...