Destruction of the Indies

In the book An Account. lots Abbreviated, Of The Destruction Of The Indies bishop De Las Casas writes to Don Felipe prince of altogether Spain to make him aware of the tortures and punishment the Spaniards did to the Indians on their conquests of the Islands. De Las Casas in the commencement ceremony of the book explains why the Spaniards torment and killed the Indians when they came to their land. The Spaniards valued their gold when they constitute out that the Indians were producing so such(prenominal) of it and in the end the Spaniards wanted their land. Las Casas says that the Indians never did any rail at to the Spaniards and thought they were gods from the sky and hither the Spaniards committed art objecty acts of outlawed harm, theft, murder and violence. These acts begin on the island of Hispaniola where the Spaniards would beat the Indians with their bare detention or sticks till they strand the lords of the Indian villages. The captain of the Spaniards would agg rieve the wife of the Indian king.\nIn the beginning the Indians would fight hindquarters but they were no allude for the Spaniards who rode on horses and had metal swords go the Indians had spears made out of sticks they had no chance and were in conclusion slaughtered. The Spaniards spared no one including no children or pregnant womanhood. The Spaniards were so ferocious that they would small-arm open the swell up of a pregnant woman and then hack the tiddler to pieces also they would place proceeds on who might slice open a man in one deteriorate of his sword. They would also cut the weapons system of the Indians and either hang them or burn them at the s government issue. The Indians that were better off(predicate) to escape would go into the mountains and hide but the Spaniards would send chase dogs into those mountains to slaughter them and whoever survived that and was found eventually became slaves to the Spaniards.\nThe Spaniards would eventually move on to conquer the islands of San Juan and Jamaica where they would once over again slaughter and torture the Indians and would take a...