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- Title: Las Casas
- Author : Alice J. Knight
- Release Date : January 24, 2007
- Genre: Religion & Spirituality,Books,
- Pages : * pages
- Size : 142 KB
Description
This is a history book. A Spaniard who had killed his wife in a fit of jealousy and had been hiding for two or three years, repenting of his crime and tired of living in concealment and fear, came to the Dominicans by night and begged them to take him in and let him stay with them as a lay brother. When they were convinced that the man was truly repentant they received him. He told them of the dreadful cruelties of which he and others had been guilty toward the natives, and the good fathers soon felt that they must look into the matter. This they did, and were not long in coming to the conclusion that it was a great evil to make slaves of the Indians and that they must do something to put a stop to it.