Bartolome de Las Casas Speech Hello my name is Bartolom? de Las Casas I am part of the Las Casas family and In 1502 I went to see my family's holdings on Hispaniola and the natives of the island have been subdued and the city of Santo Domingo was being used as a resupply for Spanish incursions in the Caribbean. I accompanied Governor Ovando on two different military missions aimed at pacifying the natives who remained on the island. On one of these missions I witnessed a massacre of poorly armed natives. And I will never ever forget what I saw it was just awful. I travelled around the island ...
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