Cultural Readings - Las Casas

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Las Casas
Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library The Tears of the Indians: Being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people; committed by the Spaniards...
London: J.C. for Nath. Brooke, 1656.

This 1656 English edition of Las Casas, translated by Oliver Cromwell's nephew, was intended, in part, to justify the British conquest of Spanish Jamaica.

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Special Collections, University of Pennsylvania Library	The Tears of the Indians: Being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people; committed by the Spaniards... London: J.C. for Nath. Brooke, 1656.
This 1656 English edition of Las Casas, translated by Oliver Cromwell's nephew, was intended, in part, to justify the British conquest of Spanish Jamaica.