Brevisima relacion de la destruccion de las Indias

Brevisima relacion de la destruccion de las Indias, Bartolome de las Casas' 1552 primary text from Sebastian Trujillo, Seville, is the Dominican friar's own indictment of Spanish conduct toward Indigenous peoples in the Americas. Its strength is that it is a primary firsthand text by a participant witness to Spanish colonial practice. Its limit is that it was written inside the same era's controversy over the justice of the conquest, in which accounts of Mexica sacrifice were themselves being used as a counter argument, so it should be read alongside that wider polemical context rather than as neutral reportage.