Bartolomé de las Casas

The second primary source, “An Eighteenth Century Slave Narrative,” was written by Gustavus Vassa. In London during 1789, Olaudah Equiano, named Gustavus Vassa by one of his proprietors, gained an education and published his story of when he was a slave. He and his sister were kidnapped from the Kingdom of Benin, now known as Nigeria, when he was eleven. He was transported by British slave traders from Africa to Barbados, then Virginia, as a slave. When Equiano first encountered a slave ship and…

Spaniards, according to an early proponent for Native American rights, had “no more consideration for [the natives] than beasts”. The Spaniards enslaved the natives into heavy labor, where the natives “soon [died] of no matter what malady” (Bartolomé de las Casas, p.27). In Cicao and Haiti, “where [Columbus] and his men imagined huge gold fields to exist, they ordered all persons fourteen years or older to collect a certain quantity of gold every three months”. When the natives brought the gold…

The first age of colonization, puts a spotlight on the birth of European exploration of the Americas and the peoples who inhabited them. Numerous countries of Europe sent adventurers to explore, with primary intentions to discover resources, to trade, and spread Catholicism to the “uncivilized” natives of the areas. Spain, after the Reconquista, started their golden age. After Columbus’ discovery of the new world, explorers and treasure ships made their way to the Americas. The Spanish conquest…

praises Columbus too much, he goes overboard. According to Zinn, Columbus was a bad guy. Zinn was more on the people’s side, and would have liked to see their view on things. 6. What major issues does Bartolome de las Casas bring up regarding Spanish expeditions in the Caribbean? * Bartolome brings up the treatment of the native people by the Spaniards. He tells about the living styles and what kind of people the Indians were. He also says that the Spaniards grow more and more conceited.…

Bartolome de Las Casas point this out in his brief account of devastation of the Indies. He wrote “Their reason for killing and destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell themselves…

start this conversation by identifying what the Spanish conquerors did and if the culture they lived in was enough to justify it. Venturing into the book, The Lieutenant Nun, by Catalina de Erauso, we find evidence of…

disease of the European population and they either died or obeyed. While the indigenous population is forced to change their religious beliefs, they are also being exploited. An encomendero named Bartolome de Las Casas witnessed the barbaric acts being committed against the indigenous community. In fact, Casa mentions that instead of killing for resistance against the King, many Europeans grew accustomed to…

The Contributions that Native Americans made on American history are well documented. But as James Axtell points out, a lot of times it’s more of the looking negatively on the history of the Indians, such as “obstacles to white settlement” or “victims of oppression.” (Axtell 981) To understand the true contributions made by the Indians, one would have to look at both the good and the bad, as in the help they provided to the settlers and the way they fought the conquerors. The Native Americans…

Olivier Lustin Journal #2 Reflection Colonialism has had a profound effect on poverty. Even before the policy was enacted, there was already poverty, but it was not nearly as bad. Some, if not most, cases of poverty were caused by the great Scramble for Africa caused by the great European powers during the late 19th and early 20th centuries. Due to this age of new imperialism, families that were previously together were sometimes torn apart because of the imaginary boundaries…

slave labor, and conversion to catholicism, and mestizo (indian/white) and mulatto(black and white) -1680 Pope's Rebellion; death of hundreds of spanish colonists/destruction of churches Juan de Sepulveda wrote “Just Causes for War Against the Indians” justified Spanish colonization Bartolome de las Casas, “a Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies” criticized spanish…