Bartholomew De Las Casas; His Life, Apostolate, and Writings

Bartholomew De Las Casas; His Life, Apostolate, and Writings is a book by Francis Augustus MacNutt. The preface says the controversies of which Bartholomew de Las Casas was, for more than half a century, the central figure no longer move us. The volume is dedicated to a beloved wife, Margaret Van Cortlandt Ogden. Herrera is named as the first historian who had access to the original manuscript, in spite of the instruction of Las Casas to his executors to withhold them from publication for a period of forty years after his death.

A complete edition of the Historia General and the Apologetica was not printed in Spanish until 1875-1876. A writer says he has even been told by a man who knows, to clear his conscience, that there was a great deal of bribery and corruption among wicked people, who used three or four or ten ducats to outrage God. A passage says that a commander sent his captain in all directions, making cruel war on the natives.