Bartolome
de las Casas Home Page
Biographical sketch: http://www.lascasas.org/manissues.htm
Las Casas and Racial Justice
1492
Exhibit at the Library of Congress
Images from A Short Account of the Destruction . . . (Professor Edward Gallagher's site at Lehigh)
Image from an 1876 mural by Constantine Brumidi, courtesy of the Architect of the Capitol Site.
BREVISIMA
RELACIÓN DE LA DESTRUICIÓN DE LAS INDIAS (in Spanish)
Full version of Francis MacNutt's biography of de las Casas from 1909 (includes a portrait) (Project Gutenberg)
Translation of de las Casas's A Brief Account . . . from 1689 (Project Gutenberg)
Excerpts from Apologetic
and Summary History Treating the Qualities, Disposition, Description, Skies
and Soil of These Lands; and the Natural Conditions, Governance,Nations,
Ways of Life and Customs of the Peoples of These Western and Southern Indies,
Whose Sovereign Realm Belongs to the Monarchs of Castile