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by Bartolomé de las Casas · · 151 pages
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Este libro, escrito por Bartolomé de las Casas, relata la destrucción de las Indias Occidentales. La introducción es de Roberto Fernandez Retamar y la traducción al francés es de Fanchita Gonzalez Batlle. Publicado en París en 1980, forma parte de la serie 'Découverte -- 6'.
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.
