Columbus versus Bartholome de las Casas about the New World

Primary Source Project for Chapter Nine

Citations

"The Letter of Columbus to Luis De Sant Angel Announcing His Discovery." UShistory.org. N.d. <http://www.ushistory.org/documents/columbus.html> (last accessed 14 January, 2018).

"Bartoleme de Las Casas, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies. (1542)." History 41: The American Colonies, Professor Bruce Dorsey. 1999. <http://www.swarthmore.edu/SocSci/bdorsey1/41docs/02-las.html> (last accessed via Wayback 2022 February 8).
Full book: <http://www.gutenberg.org/cache/epub/20321/pg20321-images.html>.

 

Further Links and materials for study

Select Letters of Christopher Columbus with other Original relating to Four Voyages to the New World. Translated and Edited by R. H. Major. London.. 1847 <https://books.google.com/books?id=uFg4AAAAMAAJ&pg=PA1#v=onepage&q&f=false>.

"Columbus reports on his first voyage, 1493: A Spotlight on a Primary Source by Christopher Columbus." The Gilder Lehrman Institute of American History. N.d. <https://www.gilderlehrman.org/content/columbus-reports-his-first-voyage-1493>

For more go to http://lascasas.org/index.htm.

 

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