From Bartolomé de Las Casas, History of the Indies (1528) Las Casas was the Domi

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From Bartolomé de Las Casas, History of the Indies (1528) Las Casas was the Dominican priest who condemned the treatment of Indians in the Spanish empire. His widely disseminated History of the Indies helped to establish the Black Legend of Spanish cruelty The Indians [of Hispaniola] were totally deprived of their freedom and were put in the harshest, fiercest, most horrible servitude and captivity which no one who has not seen it can understand. Even beasts enjoy more freedom when they are allowed to graze in the fields. But our Spaniards gave no such opportunity to Indians and truly considered them perpetual slaves, since the Indians had not the free will to dispose of their persons but instead were disposed of according to Spanish greed and cruelty, not as men in captivity but as beasts tied to a rope to prevent free movement. When they were allowed to go home, they often found it deserted and had no other recourse than to go out into the woods to find food and to die. When they fell ill, which was very fre- quently because they are a delicate people unaccustomed to such work, the Spaniards did not believe them and pitilessly called them lazy dogs and kicked and beat them; and when illness was apparent they sent them home as useless.... They would go then, falling into the first stream and dying there in desperation; others would hold on longer but very few ever made it home. I sometimes came upon dead bodies on my way, and upon others who were gasping and moaning in their death agony, repeating "Hungry hungry" And this was the freedom, the good treatment and the Christianity the Indians received About eight years passed under Spanish rule] and this disorder had time to grow; no one gave it a thought and the multitude of people who originally lived on the island s consumed at such a rate that in these eight years go per cent had perished. From e this sweeping plague went to San Juan, Jamaica, Cuba and the continent, spreading destruction over the whole hemisphere.

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In the first document freedom is death .Those who suffered from the brutal slavery would die and after that they will get freedom. This is the apperant of freedom in the first document .

In the second document, the rebels wanted freedom from Spaniards religion ,because of that they burned churches , killed priest so that they can take revenge for their suffering .Freedom from Christianity and they started their own superstitious rites.

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