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Devastation Of The Indes

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Las Cases begins his essay “Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indes” by giving a brief history of the discovery and an account of the characteristics of the ingenious peoples that lived there. Las Cases then goes on to describe the evils those people were subjected to, by the Spaniards, in the name of God and greed. “...they behaved with such temerity and shamelessness that the most powerful ruler of the islands had to see his own wide raped by a Christian officer.”, Las Cases writes. Las Cases' sympathizes with the native people, and his position in his writing appears to be to portray the Spanish as wholly evil, with no redeeming qualities. In my opinion, I tend to agree with Las Cases, for the most part. I do believe his writing

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