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        language

        Spanish

        region

        Latin America

        year published

        1994

        page count

        174

        difficulty

        Intermediate

        main characters

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        Rip's impressions

        first line

        In 1517, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, feeling great pity for the Indians who grew worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines, proposed to Emperor Charles V that Negroes be brought to the isles of the Caribbean, so that they might grow worn and lean in the drudging infernos of the Antillean gold mines.

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