“The Indians were totally deprived of their freedom and were put into the harshest, fiercest, most horrible servitude and captivity which no one who has not seen it can understand. Even beasts enjoy more freedom when they are allowed to graze in the field.”

— Bartolomé de las Casas

History of the Indies (1561)

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Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer 1474–1566

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