Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts
Showing posts with label Spanish. Show all posts

Thursday, May 6, 2021

Indian Massacre in Florida

Indian  Massacre in Florida

Oppechancanough massacre in 1622



….they fell again upon the dead bodies, making as well as they could a fresh murder, defacing, dragging, and mangling their carcasses into many pieces, and carrying some parts away in derision,....

The resentment on the part of the Indians indicated by such behavior would surely have resulted in torturing of the practice had been known to them.

He himself cites a case where he applied torture to an Indian:

The Council concluded, that I should terrify them with some torture, to know if I could know their intent. The next day, I bound one in the hold to the mainmast: and presented six muskets....forced him to desire life.....I frightened the other, first with the rack, then with muskets:....

….otherwise he (Powhatan) threatened to destroy us in a strange manner. First, he said he would make us dumb and then kill us... Had torture been practiced it would have made a much more efficacious deterrent.

  Excerpt from "Captured and Tortured: Trilogy of Terror"



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Friday, March 3, 2017

Cruel Treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish

Cruel Treatment of Native Americans by the Spanish


Native Americans being devoured by dogs as Spanish soldiers look on

Moreover, the Spaniards found their first American conquests too easy,
and the rewards of these too great. This prevented all thought of
developing the country through industry, concentrating expectation
solely upon waiting fortunes, to be had from the natives by the sword or
through forced labor in mines, Their treatment of the aborigines was
nothing short of diabolical. Well has it been said: "The Spaniards had
sown desolation, havoc, and misery in and around their track. They had
depopulated some of the best peopled of the islands and renewed them
with victims deported from others. They had inflicted upon hundreds of
thousands of the natives all the forms and agonies of fiendish cruelty,
driving them to self-starvation and suicide, as a way of mercy and
release from an utterly wretched existence. They had come to be viewed
by their victims as fiends of hate, malignity, and all dark and cruel
desperation and mercilessness in passion. The hell which they denounced
upon their victims was shorn of its worst terror by the assurance that
these tormentors were not to be there. Las Casas, the noble missionary, 

 true soldier of the cross, and the few priests and monks who
sympathized with him, in vain protested against these cruelties."