Bartolomé De Las Casa account of his first-hand experience of the brutality that Spain’s conquest of the new world is something that touched me deeply because as a black woman in American of Jamaican descent the horrible tragedy’s that the natives experienced are all too familiar to me and other people of color. Reading the details of the disturbing acts committed by the Europeans made me sit back and reflect on my own history because this is something you don’t get desensitized about, whenever I read about the horrible things that native people went through it make me think, “How can someone just stand and watch this happen, is there anyone that is going to speak up and defend these people?” Las Casa is the first person that I have ever
