Bartolome De Las Casas Books
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies
Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrif...
Read MoreThe log of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to America in the year 1492
Presents the log of Christopher Columbus as copied out in brief by his companion, Bartholomew Las Casas, relating the day-to-day drama of a long sea voyage into the unknown.
Read MoreThe devastation of the Indies
"Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever. Among the first--and most in...
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