How Did Bartolome De Las Casas

The Bartolome de las Casas document, “The Devastation of the Indies”, written in 1565, says many things regarding both the Indians and the Spanish Christians. Bartolome de las Casas describes a number of events that took place between the Indians and the Christians who settled in the Indies, many of which were not respectable events. In “The Devastation of the Indies”, Bartolome writes about his view on the way the Indians were, on the way the Spanish were, and on the way the Spanish treated the Indians.

Bartolome de las Casas starts this piece of writing off by saying how the Indians behaved and what their motivations were. De las Casas talks very highly of the Indians right at the start, calling them, “the most guiltless, the most devoid of wickedness and duplicity, the most obedient and faithful to their native masters and to the Spanish Christians whom they serve.” Bartolome believed that the Indians were very humble, and intelligent, as well as accepting of other views and ways of …show more content…
When he first talks mainly about the Spanish, he immediately mentions how cruel, and ruthless they were. De las Casas tells about how these so called ‘Christians’ were driven by greed, and the want for worldly things, unlike the Indians. Bartolome says in his document, “It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies.” The fact that he said that their ‘greed and ambition’ was the ‘greatest ever seen in the world’, is quite shocking. Although this was written in 1565, it is still quite a statement against his fellow Spanish Christians, because to him, they had the most greed and ambition in their hearts and motives than any other group in the world up to that point. Bartolome made it quite clear that the Spanish were ruthless men, who were driven by the want of worldly