Reading A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies | Alexandria
Read A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolome de Las Casas. Exposing colonialism's dark truth, Las Casas's 1542 eyewitness account revolutionized human rights by daring to declare indigenous peoples fully human and worthy of dignity - a radical stance that challenged European supremacy. His brave dissent reminds us that moral progress often begins with one voice willing to document atrocity.