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Title
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Ferdinandvs Sotto crvdeliter in Florida præfecturam exercet, abscissis etiam Cacicorum manibus.
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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. This image is identical to one found on page 151 of Frankfurt, 1595, but colored.
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Image Creator
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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:23786
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Source Name
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Americæ pars Qvinta Nobilis & admiratione plena Hieronymi Bezoni Mediolanensis secundæ sectionis Hispanorum, tum in Nigrittas seruos suos, tum in Indos crudelitatem, Gallorumq[ue] pirataru[m] de Hispanis toties reportata spolia, Aduentu[m] item Hispanoru[m] in Nouam Indiæ continentis Hispaniam, eorumq[ue], contra incolas eius regionis sæuitiam explicans.
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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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