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Essay

The US and Spanish American Revolutions

If one says “American Revolution” in the United States today, it is assumed that what is being referred to is the North American liberation struggles against the British Empire in...

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Leyes Nuevas implemented

Spain, at the urging of Bartolomé de Las Casas, implemented the Leyes Nuevas—the “New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians.” The New Laws were intended to protect Indians from enslavement and maltreatment by Spanish colonists, but they had little effect as colonists refused to abide by them.

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A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies

Bartolomé de Las Casas published A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, a record of the mistreatment of American Indians in colonial Spanish America.