I need help with three questions.
"In the Year 1509, the Spaniards sailed to the Islands of St. John and Jamaica with the same purpose and design they proposed to themselves in the Isle of Hispaniola, perpetrating innumerableRobberies and Villanies as before; whereunto they added unheard and Finally by afflicting and harassing them with of Crueltiesun-exampled Oppressions and torments in the Mines, they spoiled and unpeopled this Contrey [country] of these Innocents. These two Islescontaining six hundred thousand at least, though at this day there are scarce two hundred men to be found in either of them, the remainder perishing without the knowledge of Christian Faith or Sacrament."

1.) For what audience did Las Casas write these accounts? What does that the audience suggest about his purpose for writing?
2.) Suppose these accounts had been written by a visitor from competing for European power eager to remove the Spanish from the Americas and take over the land for itself. What might be that author's audience and purpose?
3.) Read the historical perspectives on the brutality of the Spanish on page 265. Then in a sentence or two explain the role of identifying purpose and audience in determining the accuracy of a historical source, referring to specific examples from that page.

Las casas wrote this for the Spanish rulers and government, to let them know that the indigenous people were suffering because of the Encomienda system that was imposed by the Spaniards in the Americas. He wanted to get the Encomienda system banned.

Explanation:

The encomienda system was a system that was developed by the Spanish crown. It granted the settlers in "new Spain" with a large piece of land. You could compare it with the manors in Europe in the middle ages. The Spanish settlers were the "landowners" and the indigenous people were the "serfs", but their fate was even worse than that of serfs, because they got NO profit from the lands at all. This would change with the later formed hacienda system, were indigenous people were allowed to keep small profits of the land in theory. In reality it was usually nothing,