Primary Document Response

The author of Destruction Of The Indies, argued that the Spaniards came to his native land and were "barbarous", violent people who killed and abused around three million of the Hispaniola people, leaving a mere three hundred standing. I agree with his opinion of the Spanish because he states ..."but the Massacre of the Wretches, whom they have so inhumanely and barbarously butcher'd and harass'd with several kinds of Torments, never before known, or heard (of which you shall have some account in the following Discourse) that of Three Millions of Persons, which lived in Hispaniola itself, there is at present but the inconsiderable remnant of scarce Three Hundred." Meaning these people came with such brutality that Natives had even imagined they could bring. I believe, as do most that this was cruel and fueled by people who thought of nothing but themselves in the sense of wanting to gain power, riches, and land. I believe that the Spanish coming to the land was an important part of history, but i believe that they should have went about things much differently.