Mary Bartolome De Las Casas

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The portrayal of different ethnicities in historical documents provides a window into the societal attitudes and biases of their time. This essay will analyze the depiction of ethnicities in four documents: Bartolome de las Casas’ “A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” Nathaniel Bacon’s “Bacon’s Declaration for the People,” Mary Rowlandson’s “The Narrative of the Captivity of Mary Rowlandson,” and the Barbados Slave Code.

Bartolome de las Casas In “A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies,” Bartolome de las Casas presents a scathing critique of the Spanish colonizers’ treatment of the indigenous people in the Americas. The indigenous people are portrayed as innocent victims of the colonizers’ brutalities, highlighting
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