murksiderock
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https://www.richmond.com/news/trend...cle_1d5641b7-a2c4-5991-89ef-8e037cbfdde3.html
Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in Hispaniola in 1502, when he was 18. For decades, he participated in the mistreatment of the Taíno and the introduction of enslaved Africans, before renouncing it all, becoming a Dominican friar and confessing what he had witnessed in "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies."
It is worth quoting him at length. This excerpt is very graphic:
"They [Spanish explorers] forced their way into native settlements, slaughtering everyone they found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even women who had just given birth. They hacked them to pieces, slicing open their bellies with their swords as though they were so many sheep herded into a pen. They even laid wagers on whether they could slice a man in two at a stroke, or cut an individual's head from his body, or disembowel him with a single blow of their axes. They grabbed suckling infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers' breasts, dashed them headlong against the rocks. Other, laughing and joking all the while, threw them over their shoulders, shouting, 'Wriggle, you little perisher.'"
Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in Hispaniola in 1502, when he was 18. For decades, he participated in the mistreatment of the Taíno and the introduction of enslaved Africans, before renouncing it all, becoming a Dominican friar and confessing what he had witnessed in "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies."
It is worth quoting him at length. This excerpt is very graphic:
"They [Spanish explorers] forced their way into native settlements, slaughtering everyone they found there, including small children, old men, pregnant women, and even women who had just given birth. They hacked them to pieces, slicing open their bellies with their swords as though they were so many sheep herded into a pen. They even laid wagers on whether they could slice a man in two at a stroke, or cut an individual's head from his body, or disembowel him with a single blow of their axes. They grabbed suckling infants by the feet and, ripping them from their mothers' breasts, dashed them headlong against the rocks. Other, laughing and joking all the while, threw them over their shoulders, shouting, 'Wriggle, you little perisher.'"
so far 3 posters have come in saying someone else besides zaddy was worse slavers after reading the op