Occupation: Historian Birth: November 11, 1484 Death: July 18, 1566
The main goal of divine Providence in [allowing] the discovery of these tribes and lands . . . is . . . the conversion and well-being of souls, and t….
The reader may ask himself if this is not cruelty and injustice of a kind so terrible that it beggars the imagination, and whether these poor people ….
Island of Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to be more than three million), has now a population of barely two hundre….
Later, a large band of Christians mounted an attack on this native lord, butchering him along with vast numbers of his people and taking all the surv….
The reason the Christians have murdered on such a vast scale and killed anyone and everyone in their way is purely and simply greed..
The Christians seized all the maize the locals of Nicaragua had grown for themselves and their own families and, as a consequence, some twenty or thi….
The one and only method of teaching men the true religion was established by Divine Providence for the whole world, and for all times: that is, by pe….
"The pattern established at the outset has remained to this day, and the Spaniards still do nothing save tear the natives to shreds, murder them and ….
It clearly appears that there are no races in the world, however rude, uncultivated, barbarous, gross, or almost brutal they may be, who cannot be pe….
I write ... in order to help ensure that the teeming millions in the New World, for whose sins Christ gave His life, do not continue to die in ignora….
What we committed in the Indies stands out among the most unpardonable offenses ever committed against God and mankind and this trade [in Indian slav….