by Bartolomé de las Casas · Informacion Y Revistas SA · tapa blanda · ISBN 9788476792421
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«Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias» is the historical essay by Bartolomé de las Casas, published by Información y Revistas in paperback.
Bartolomé de las Casas wrote this denunciation in 1542, based on his experience in America, to recount the massacres, slavery and exploitation suffered by indigenous peoples at the hands of Spanish colonizers. Addressed to King Philip II, it became one of the first critiques of colonialism and fueled the Black Legend about Spain.
This Spanish-language edition, from 1992, has 109 pages. The work originally appeared in 1552.
For History students and readers interested in the critique of Spanish colonialism and the origins of the Black Legend.
Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the Caribbean islands. He described and railed against the atrocities committed by the conquistadores against the Indigenous peoples.
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