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Witness and chronicler of the atrocities committed by Spaniards against the indigenous people of Hispaniola and South America.
“A Spaniard who was out hunting deer or rabbits realized that his dogs were hungry and, not finding anything that they could hunt, took a little boy from his mother, cut his arms and legs into chunks with his knife and distributed them among his dogs. Once they had eaten up these steaks, he threw the rest of the carcass on the ground for them to fight over.”
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He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman then became a Dominican friar and priest. He was appointed as 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. He described the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous peoples.
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