Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (de Las Casas, 1542), and listen to this Reading of de Las Casas Journal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkY0u6aH20).

Your first written assignment is a response paper based on the written words of Bartoleme de Las Casas.Please read this excerpt of his writing, Brief Account of the Devastation of the Indies (de Las Casas, 1542), and listen to this Reading of de Las Casas Journal (https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=kAkY0u6aH20). These are both primary sources since the words came directly from de Las Casas. We will use these primary sources to write your first primary source analysis.The purpose of analyzing a primary source is to try to understand what a person who was directly involved in an event saw, reported, or thought about that event. Think of primary sources as eyewitness accounts. These eyewitness accounts make history more “real” because they let us see it through the eyes of those who lived it.Once you have listened and read the document, you will write a paper that explains what de Las Casas is saying and puts his words into the context of his time. Make sure to tell me what his main point was and how his works fit into the context of what we studied in this module. Also, think about American society today in the context of de Las Casas’s words and tell me how his works remain relevant.Your paper will be structured like this:Introduction — will tell me what sources you are analyzing, what the author’s main point in those sources is, and what your main point for your paper (thesis) will be.Body — will include several paragraphs that analyze the source. Make sure each of these has a clear topic sentence that tells me what the whole paragraph will be about. You may use your textbook or class lectures to help you put the source into the context of what you learned in this module, but DO NOT do outside research. Doing that can leave you tempted to cut and paste the work of others and can get you into plagiarism trouble.Conclusion — will tell me why this source is still important and what it added to your understanding of the subject.Instructions:Your paper should be double spaced and take up 3-5 pages. It should rely most on the primary sources but can also include background material from the book and lectures. It should include parenthetical citations to let me know when you are using material from the book or lectures.