Identifier: storyofournation00stra (find matches)
Title: The story of our nation, from the earliest discoveries to the present time ... together with a graphic account of Porto Rico, Cuba, Hawaii and the Philippine islands ..
Year: 1902 (1900s)
Authors: Stratton, Ella (Hines), Mrs. (from old catalog)
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Publisher: Philadelphia, National publishing co
Contributing Library: The Library of Congress
Digitizing Sponsor: Sloan Foundation

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280 A HUNDRED YEARS OF PROGRESS. 281 Velasquez, with over three hundred men, Hernando Cortes among them, also the Apostle of the Indians, Bartholome Las Casas. Hatuey had left San Domingo because of Spanish cruelty, and, when they landed in Cuba, collected his warriors to oppose them. Las Casas preached to the natives, freed his own slaves, and tried to defend the race; but while laboring for the red man, he forgot the rights of the black man, and was one of the commission that introduced negro slavery into America. Upon the pages of history he must stand beside Velasquez, who was the founder of Indian slavery. In less than fifty years nearly all of the native population of Cuba disappeared from the island, some going to the other islands of the West Indies. The Spaniards were so cruel that the Spanish officeholders have been called the only beasts of prey in Cuba. Havana was often attacked by hostile BENJAMIN HARRISON, ships of other nations, and, in 1538, was nearly destroyed by a French privatee

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