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Title
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Ferdinandus Soto treibt grosse Wüteren in der Landschafft Florida, darinnen er Gubernator war, läft auch etlichen Könischen die Händ abhawen.
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Description
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Hernando de Soto was a Spanish man who governed the Spanish territories of Cuba and La Florida (a large area of the modern Southern United States, including the present-day state of Florida) from 1536 to his death in 1542. Here, he and several fellow Spaniards torture and kill Indigenous people in Florida. In the foreground, an Indigenous man lays on the ground with one leg raised on a wooden block while a Spaniard holds a weapon poised over his raised leg. The Indigenous man has already lost both hands, and several other Indigenous people nearby have also had their hands cut off by the Spanish. Several severed limbs lay on the ground. To the left, an Indigenous man has been hung inside a structure while several Spaniards watch. Another Indigenous man has been tied down on his back on a wooden table while a Spanish man pours a liquid into his mouth using a funnel. A large fire burns on the right.
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Image Creator
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Theodor de Bry (Engraver);Theodor de Bry (Printer)
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Theodor de Bry (Engraver)
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Theodor de Bry (Printer)
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Identifier
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mta:23770
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Source Name
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Americæ das Fünffte Buch, Vol schöner unerhörter Historien, auß dem andern Theil Ioannis Benzonis von Meylandt gezogen: Von der Spanier Wüten, beyd wider ihre Knecht die Nigriten, und auch die arme Indianer: wie die Spanier von den Frantzösischen Meerraubern zum offtermal angriffen unnd geplündert worden, denn auch, wie sie erstlich das neuwe Spanien erfunden haben, und gantz erbärmlich mit dem armen Landvölcklein daselbst umbgangen sind.
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Image
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Subject
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Indigenous peoples – Florida
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Indigenous peoples, Treatment of - United States
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Spaniards
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Colonists
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Torture
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Dismemberment
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Executions and executioners
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Hanging
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Bonfires
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