Question 1
Historians would most likely add which major cause of the population decline that Las Casas does not mention in the excerpt?
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Bartolomé de las Casas, Spanish Dominican friar, account of Spanish conduct in the Caribbean, published 1552
Now this infinite multitude of Men are by the Creation of God innocently simple, altogether void of and averse to all manner of Craft, Subtlety and Malice, and most Obedient and Loyal Subjects to their Native Sovereigns; . . . The natives tractable, and capable of Morality or Goodness, very apt to receive the instill'd principles of Catholick Religion; . . .
The Spaniards first assaulted the innocent Sheep, so qualified by the Almighty, as is premention'd, like most cruel Tygers, Wolves and Lions hunger-starv'd, studying nothing, for the space of Forty Years, after their first landing, but the Massacre of these Wretches, whom they have so inhumanely and barbarously butcher'd and harass'd with several kinds of Torments, never before known, or heard . . . that of Three Millions of Persons, which lived in Hispaniola itself, there is at present but the inconsiderable remnant of scarce Three Hundred.
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