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Casas, Bartolomé De Las. “Bartoleme De Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies.” The Cuba Reader, Jan. 2009, pp. 12–14., doi:10.1215/9780822384915-003.
Bartolomé de las Casas created this document. He was a 16th century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. His significance was that he was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. He arrived as one of the first European settlers in the Americas and at first he participated in the horrendous activities committed against the Native Americans by Spanish colonists but eventually he felt forced to go against them.
This document was created in 1542. …show more content…
“African Olaudah Equiano Recounts the Horrors of Enslavement, 1757.” The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, pp. 46–48., The document was created by Olaudah Equiano. He was captured into slavery at the age of 11, who later acquired his freedom and wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African in 1789. He was the youngest son of a village leader born in the kingdom of Benin along the Niger River. Surprisingly, his family owned slaves, but there was always a threat of being abducted and becoming someone else's slave. Exactly this happened when Equiano and his sister were at home alone one day. The document was created in 1757. During this time in history, the French and Indian War was in effect. This was was a conflict between Great Britain and France. Also, during these wars, colonists were forced to enlist enslaved African people. The result of this was enslaved African people and Indians outnumbered Whites. Whites were faced with a contradiction of if they wanted to defeat the Indians they must arm enslaved Africans. But this would pose a greater threat because the enslaved would be given a greater ability to successfully
Casas, Bartolomé De Las. “Bartoleme De Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies.” The Cuba Reader, Jan. 2009, pp. 12–14., doi:10.1215/9780822384915-003.
Bartolomé de las Casas created this document. He was a 16th century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. His significance was that he was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. He arrived as one of the first European settlers in the Americas and at first he participated in the horrendous activities committed against the Native Americans by Spanish colonists but eventually he felt forced to go against them.
This document was created in 1542. …show more content…
“African Olaudah Equiano Recounts the Horrors of Enslavement, 1757.” The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, pp. 46–48., The document was created by Olaudah Equiano. He was captured into slavery at the age of 11, who later acquired his freedom and wrote The Interesting Narrative of the Life of Olaudah Equiano, or Gustavus Vassa, the African in 1789. He was the youngest son of a village leader born in the kingdom of Benin along the Niger River. Surprisingly, his family owned slaves, but there was always a threat of being abducted and becoming someone else's slave. Exactly this happened when Equiano and his sister were at home alone one day. The document was created in 1757. During this time in history, the French and Indian War was in effect. This was was a conflict between Great Britain and France. Also, during these wars, colonists were forced to enlist enslaved African people. The result of this was enslaved African people and Indians outnumbered Whites. Whites were faced with a contradiction of if they wanted to defeat the Indians they must arm enslaved Africans. But this would pose a greater threat because the enslaved would be given a greater ability to successfully