Episode 8 - The Cruelty and Tyranny you Practice

Fed up with seeing how his compatriots are treating the Indigenous population of the Antilles, Fray Antón de Montesinos delivers a passionate sermon condemning them as sinners. In response, the Spanish Crown convenes a council, or junta, of theologians and jurists, which results in the Laws of Burgos, supposedly meant to regulate relations between Indigenous populations and the colonizers.   If you want more information on the topic, please see the main references for the episode below: Historia de las Indias, Volume III, by Bartolomé de las Casas (Spanish): https://web.seducoahuila.gob.mx/biblioweb/upload/Historia%20de%20las%20Indias%203.pdf  Text of Antón Montesinos’s Sermon: https://www.summitdominicans.org/blog/2011/12/500th-anniversary-of-the-sermon-of-friar-monesinos A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies by Bartolomé de las Casas:https://web.as.uky.edu/history/faculty/myrup/his208/Casas,%20Bartolome%20de%20las%20-%20Short%20Account%20(1992,%20excerpts).pdf If you prefer to listen in Spanish, don’t forget that this episode is also available in Spanish on this same feed. If you’d like to support this educational initiative, you can visit our Patreon page here:patreon.com/HistoriaBoricua. The image for this episode was taken by Wilmer and is available on Wikimedia Commons here: https://commons.wikimedia.org/wiki/File:Fray_Antonio_Montesino_2.jpg, under the license that can be found here: Creative Commons Attribution-Share Alike 3.0.