De Las Casas Assassination Of Indies Analysis

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De Las Casas, however, is not as dishonest in his accounts of the Americas and how “well” the Europeans were spreading their nation. “The Very Brief Relation of the Devastation of Indies,” was strictly written to inform the Spanish Royal Court of the wrongs their explorers were committing against the Natives. The voyagers were given the task to convert the Natives to Christianity and Spanish culture, but instead were on a major assassination bender for gold (in which only a small percentage of the gold was given to the Spanish Royalty). Missionaries like De Las Casas wanted to bring justice to new domain. According to De Las Casas, the Natives were the most docile people they had ever encountered, and that whenever a cluster of Spanish travelers

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