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Genre/Form: | Early works Early works to 1800 Ouvrages avant 1800 |
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Material Type: | Internet resource |
Document Type: | Book, Internet Resource |
All Authors / Contributors: |
Bartolomé de las Casas; Nigel Griffin; Anthony Pagden |
ISBN: | 0140445625 9780140445626 |
OCLC Number: | 26198156 |
Description: | xlii, 143 pages : illustrations, map ; 20 cm |
Contents: | Hispaniola -- The kingdoms of Hispaniola -- The islands of Puerto Rico and Jamaica -- Cuba -- The Mainland -- The province of Nicaragua -- New Spain -- The province and Kingdom of Guatemala -- New Spain, Pánuco and Jalisco -- The kingdom of Yucatán -- The province of Santa Marta -- The province of Cartagena -- The Pearl Coast, Paria and Trinidad -- The river Yuyaparí -- The kingdom of Venezuela -- The mainland in the region known as Florida -- The river Plate -- The great kingdoms and Provinces of Peru -- The kingdom of New Granada. |
Series Title: | Penguin classics. |
Other Titles: | Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. |
Responsibility: | Bartolomé de las Casas ; edited and translated by Nigel Griffin ; with an introduction by Anthony Pagden. |
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Abstract:
A catalogue of mass slaughter, torture and slavery, which showed that the evangelizing vision of Columbus had descended under later conquistadors into genocide. It demands that the Indians be entitled to the basic rights of humankind.
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