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Explain the significance of De Las Casas’s autobiography during the colonial period?
Bartolome de las casas the author was a Spanish historian as well as a social reformer. His extensive writings mainly focused on the mayhems carried out by the colonizers against the home-grown people. He had witnessed these violence first hand during the colonization and thus felt obligated to document them. Casas reports that the Spaniards once they came to the Indian villages they would torture and kill them for the gold that they might be hiding or more so force them into slavery (Felix, 2002). These people whom he referred to as “blackguards” would worse more kill pregnant women, the elderly and children by burning them alive, running them through with lances or setting brutal dogs on them. According to him he sarcastically explains that the Indians welcomed the Spaniards only to be rewarded with torture, murder slavery and to serve them. De Las Casas helps us understand the torture that the innocent souls at the island were suppressed to by the foreign kings losing so many people and more so rendering the land to wastage. What were its lessons for humanity?
According to the Spaniards their aim to destroying these innocent souls were to subject the king of Spain who had passed out the command to kill and enslave. Their main aim of destroying the vast and blameless souls was to acquire gold and puff up to themselves with riches in a very short time so that to rise to a high estate of their intrinsic worth. And thus the Indianans who failed to abide or fail to put themselves in the hands of the merciless Christians would be termed as a rebel reluctant to serve the Majesty. The blindness of those who ruled the Indies could not allow them understands that according to the