It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies. - Bartolomé de Las Casas

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It should be kept in mind that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in the world, is the cause of their villainies.

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About Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de las Casas (November 1484 – July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focus particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.

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Native Name: Bartolomé de las Casas
Alternative Names: Bartolome de Las Casas Laury Isabella Jauregui Bartholomé de Las Casas Bartolomeo de Las Casas
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We can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and children. In truth, I believe without trying to deceive myself that the number of the slain is more like fifty million.

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The Indians were totally deprived of their freedom and were put into the harshest, fiercest, most horrible servitude and captivity which no one who has not seen it can understand. Even beasts enjoy more freedom when they are allowed to graze in the field.

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