Bartoleme De Las Casas, “The Apostle of the Indians” audience was also very clearly stated. Bartoleme wanted to stop the debauchery of the Indian people, “…engaged in a vigorous campaign to institute a more just relationship between America’s European colonizers and its indigenous inhabitants… spoke, wrote, and published against existing practices, often in excoriating terms, to audiences on both sides of the Atlantic” (67). He called out the so called colonial Christians and their European stakeholders in print that brought to light the treatment of the Indian people. His recollection of the horrific rape of the chief’s wife perpetrated by a Christian captain (Franciso de Valenzuela), and other atrocities of mutilation, burning and hanging
