Racial Relations Throughout History: Bartolome De Las Casas, Helen Hunt Jackson
Common Assessment Essay
Racial Relations throughout history has varied between people, time periods, and trends at the time. Three very concerverical and different people that had large roles in this matter were Bartolome de Las Casas, Andrew Jackson, and Helen Hunt Jackson. All of these people had very different approaches to how they handled this and the way they tried to persuade people to believe what they believed. Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566) was a Spanish historian who was one of the first to “tell all” about what the Spaniards were doing to the native people. In his writing he was quite descriptive, from how the people were killed to the locations of the islands. He was straightforward about what was done to the natives and he was very against it. He made it very clear that if the people were not killed, which was very few, were captured and sold for slavery. He compared the …show more content…
In her writing she was very exact and gave lots of numbers for each fact she gave. She had things in her writing that the white man had instigated all the war between the indians and white men. She didn’t go into detail about the cruelty that the indians went through, but she did mention it. She made it clear that she felt that the government was a liar and never held there promises with the Indians. She blamed the treatment of the Indians on greed of gold and that they were caught in the middle of it. Andrew Jackson was very racist and thought his race was “superior” to all other races. Helen Jackson and de Las Casas were both Native American activist and help to try to better the Indians. Although I felt de Las Casas was much more passionate about the cause than Helen Jackson. De Las Casas was more emotionally involved and I enjoyed his work. I appreciate helen trying but she just wasn’t as descriptive in the right ways. Also he had much more examples of cruelty while she just passed over
Racial Relations throughout history has varied between people, time periods, and trends at the time. Three very concerverical and different people that had large roles in this matter were Bartolome de Las Casas, Andrew Jackson, and Helen Hunt Jackson. All of these people had very different approaches to how they handled this and the way they tried to persuade people to believe what they believed. Bartolome de Las Casas (1474-1566) was a Spanish historian who was one of the first to “tell all” about what the Spaniards were doing to the native people. In his writing he was quite descriptive, from how the people were killed to the locations of the islands. He was straightforward about what was done to the natives and he was very against it. He made it very clear that if the people were not killed, which was very few, were captured and sold for slavery. He compared the …show more content…
In her writing she was very exact and gave lots of numbers for each fact she gave. She had things in her writing that the white man had instigated all the war between the indians and white men. She didn’t go into detail about the cruelty that the indians went through, but she did mention it. She made it clear that she felt that the government was a liar and never held there promises with the Indians. She blamed the treatment of the Indians on greed of gold and that they were caught in the middle of it. Andrew Jackson was very racist and thought his race was “superior” to all other races. Helen Jackson and de Las Casas were both Native American activist and help to try to better the Indians. Although I felt de Las Casas was much more passionate about the cause than Helen Jackson. De Las Casas was more emotionally involved and I enjoyed his work. I appreciate helen trying but she just wasn’t as descriptive in the right ways. Also he had much more examples of cruelty while she just passed over