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by Bartolomé de Las Casas, Etienne de Montauban

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Amsterdam: Chez J. Louis de Lorme Librairie sur le Rockin, à l'enseigne de la Liberté, 1698. Beautiful late 17th-century edition of a central primary source in the conquest of the Americas. Very good. Item #1079 Las Casas first sailed to the West Indies when he was only eighteen, participating in the brutal Spanish occupation of Cuba. Upon his conversion, he dedicated his life to fighting the devastation

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