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Here, you can check out this guy: http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice http://origins.osu.edu/miles
by jellicle 6y ago
Here, you can check out this guy:
http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-casas-and-500-years-racial-injustice http://origins.osu.edu/milestones/july-2015-bartolom-de-las-...
And read his book:
https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20321 https://www.gutenberg.org/ebooks/20321
Since it was written in the 1500s by an eyewitness, I trust you will find it satisfactory. For those who don't feel like clicking through, de las Casas describes a great deal of roasting people alive, chopping off their hands, noses and other body parts, all for the purpose of extracting the most gold from the New World in the least amount of time.
- AnimalMuppet 6y agoWritten by an eyewitness to the Spanish abuse of the natives, true. But an eyewitness of abuses by Columbus, or by those who came after him? (The only mention of Columbus in the article is an address in Ohio.) Don't blame Columbus for the sins of all of Spain.