Bartolome History Of The Indies Summary

The source of the first passage that I read was History of the Indies written by Bartolome de Las Casas written in 1528. Bartolome was a 16th century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar/priest, who condemned the treatment of Indians in the Spanish empire. Bartolome widely disseminated History of the Indies and helped to establish the Black Legend of Spanish cruelty (Give Me Liberty, 28). The source of the second passage that I read was the “Declaration of Josephe” which was created by Josephe on December 19, 1681, and Josephe was a Spanish-speaking Indian questioned by a royal attorney in Mexico City investigating the Pueblo Revolt, which is the revolt of the indian population, in 1680, which temporarily drove Spanish settlers out of present day New Mexico
(Give Me Liberty, 29). For the first source the intended audience is the Indians of Hispaniola

The second passage that I have read is a secondary source, and what has brought be to the conclusion is that the passage is being narrated by someone because in the passage the narrator says stuff like, “he said” and “Thus he replies” in the text. The main idea of the first passage is about how Indians in Hispaniola were deprived of their freedom and treated horribly. The main idea of the second passage is that the Indians who would go against the Law of God would have everything that they have away from them and they also would be