Account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America, containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Indians, in the destruction of above forty millions of people, with the propositions offer'd to the King of Spain, to prevent the further ruin of the West-Indies

First English translation of the appeal by Bartolomé de las Casas, early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary, to the King of Spain to put an end to the cruelty and enslavement inflicted on the native peoples of New Spain.