Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies

Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies
<Tab/>In 1542, Bartoleme de Las Casas wrote Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies. His purpose for writing this was to inform his audience that slavery was wrong. He wrote about his first hand accounts. He wrote of the inhumanity towards innocent people that he himself witnessed.
<Tab/>I think that if I would have seen the same thing that Bartoleme saw, I would have written something as well. In his writings, Bartoleme said that the Indians very smart and peaceful people. They were thought to be uncivi…