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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolomé de Las Casas
- Form
- Form Non-fiction
- Year
- Year 1552
- Originally in
- Originally in Spanish
- Pages
- Pages 150
Thirteen at a time they hanged them, in honour of the Redeemer and his twelve apostles, and lit a fire beneath their feet. Bartolomé de Las Casas saw such things, wrote them down, and addressed the account to a Spanish prince who would one day inherit the empire it describes.
their Ambition and Avarice, than which the heart of Man never entertained greater
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