HIPPOS DOCUMENTS Document 1 must be good servants and very intelligent, because I see that they repeat very quickly “They what I told them, and it is my conviction that they easily become Christians, for they seem not to have any sect. If it please our Lord, I will take six of them that they may learn to speak. The people are totally unacquainted with arms, as your Highnesses will see by observing the seven which I have caused to be taken in. With fifty men all can be kept in subjection, and made to do whatever you desire.” --Christopher Columbus (October 12, 1492) Document 2 Document 3 Spanish have a perfect right to rule these barbarians of the New World and the adjacent “The islands, who in prudence, skill, virtues, and humanity are as inferior to the Spanish as children to adults…” --Juan de Sepulveda (1547) Document 4 common ways mainly employed by the Spaniards who call themselves Christian and who “The have gone there to extirpate those pitiful nations and wipe them off the earth is by unjustly waging cruel and bloody wars. Then, when they have slain all those who fought for their lives or to escape the tortures they would have to endure, that is to say, when they have slain all the native rulers and young men (since the Spaniards usually spare only the women and children, who are subjected to the hardest and bitterest servitude ever suffered by man or beast), they enslave any survivors. With these infernal methods of tyranny they debase and weaken countless numbers of those pitiful Indian nations.” --Bartolomé de las Casas (1552) Document 5 will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who “Why supply you with food? What can you get by war?...In these wars, me men must sit up watching,
HIPPOS DOCUMENTS Document 1 “They must be good servants and very intelligent, because I see that they repeat very quickly what I told them, and it is my conviction that they easily become Christians, for they seem not to have any sect. If it please our Lord, I will take six of them that they may learn to speak. The people are totally unacquainted with arms, as your Highnesses will see by observing the seven which I have caused to be taken in. With fifty men all can be kept in subjection, and made to do whatever you desire.” --Christopher Columbus (October 12, 1492) Document 2 Document 3 “The Spanish have a perfect right to rule these barbarians of the New World and the adjacent islands, who in prudence, skill, virtues, and humanity are as inferior to the Spanish as children to adults…” --Juan de Sepulveda (1547) Document 4 “The common ways mainly employed by the Spaniards who call themselves Christian and who have gone there to extirpate those pitiful nations and wipe them off the earth is by unjustly waging cruel and bloody wars. Then, when they have slain all those who fought for their lives or to escape the tortures they would have to endure, that is to say, when they have slain all the native rulers and young men (since the Spaniards usually spare only the women and children, who are subjected to the hardest and bitterest servitude ever suffered by man or beast), they enslave any survivors. With these infernal methods of tyranny they debase and weaken countless numbers of those pitiful Indian nations.” --Bartolomé de las Casas (1552) Document 5 “Why will you take by force what you may have quietly by love? Why will you destroy us who supply you with food? What can you get by war?...In these wars, me men must sit up watching,