g c's List: De Las Casas

Read David Orique's biography of De Las Casas on this page.

Begin reading at "Of the Island Hispaniola" about half way down the page. Hispaniola is the Caribbean island that now contains the countries of Haiti and the Dominican Republic. In this section De Las Casas discusses the actions of the Spaniards on Hispaniola. This is from the 1689 English translation of De Las Casas' book, so the language is a bit archaic. DEPENDING ON YOUR COMPUTER SETTINGS, IT MAY BE BETTER FOR YOU TO CLICK THE RED LINK BELOW THIS TEXT TO GET TO THE PAGE RATHER THAN THE BLUE LINK ABOVE.

This page continues the story from the previous link in the list. Stop reading at the bottom of this page and then go to the next link in the list. DEPENDING ON YOUR COMPUTER SETTINGS, IT MAY BE BETTER FOR YOU TO CLICK THE RED LINK BELOW THIS TEXT TO GET TO THE PAGE RATHER THAN THE BLUE LINK ABOVE.

Begin reading at the top of the page. De Las Casas is discussing the removal of Native Americans from the coast of Venezuela. Later in this section he discusses the kidnapping of Native Americans from the "Isle of Lucaya" which is in the modern day Bahamas. Read this page and continue following the links in the list. DEPENDING ON YOUR COMPUTER SETTINGS, IT MAY BE BETTER FOR YOU TO CLICK THE RED LINK BELOW THIS TEXT TO GET TO THE PAGE RATHER THAN THE BLUE LINK ABOVE.

Stop reading at "and several perished in this Isle that came from other Provinces" (at the page break). This is the end of the De Las Casas readings. You can now return to the Weekly Assignment page. DEPENDING ON YOUR COMPUTER SETTINGS, IT MAY BE BETTER FOR YOU TO CLICK THE RED LINK BELOW THIS TEXT TO GET TO THE PAGE RATHER THAN THE BLUE LINK ABOVE.