Download or read book A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies (Esprios Classics) written by Bartolomé de Las Casas and published by Blurb. This book was released on 2020-12-12 with total page 86 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Bartolomé de las Casas (11 November 1484 - 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish landowner, friar, priest, and bishop, famed as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman then became a Dominican friar and priest. 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 West Indies. He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.