A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies
By Bartolomé de las Casas
- Release Date: 1566-01-11
- Genre: Fiction & Literature
Description
One of the stated purposes for writing the account is his fear of Spain coming under divine punishment and his concern for the souls of the Native Peoples. The account is one of the first attempts by a Spanish writer of the colonial era to depict examples of unfair treatment that indigenous people endured in the early stages of the Spanish conquest of the Greater Antilles, particularly the island of Hispaniola.
