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Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (US: / l ɑː s ˈ k ɑː s ə s / lahss KAH-səss; Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas] ⓘ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an historian and social reformer.
Jun 27, 2024 · Bartolome de Las Casas, early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there.
Jun 17, 2022 · Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of New Spain and Peru and who strove to protect the basic rights...
Bartolomé de las Casas, sickened by the exploitation and physical degradation of the indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Caribbean, gave up his extensive land holdings and slaves and traveled to his homeland in Spain in 1515 to petition the Spanish Crown to stop the abuses that European colonists were inflicting upon the natives ...
Bartolomé de Las Casas, (born August 1474, Sevilla?—died July 17, 1566, Madrid), Spanish historian and missionary, called the Apostle of the Indies. He sailed on Christopher Columbus ’s third voyage (1498) and later became a planter on Hispaniola (1502).
Nov 6, 2020 · Bartolomé de Las Casas (c. 1484–July 18, 1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar who became famous for his defense of the rights of the Indigenous peoples of the Americas. His brave stand against the horrors of the conquest and the colonization of the New World earned him the title “Defender of the Indigenous peoples."
Jun 17, 2022 · Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) fue un fraile dominico español y antiguo conquistador que reveló las atrocidades de las conquistas de Nueva España y Perú y que se esforzó por proteger los derechos básicos de los pueblos indígenas en el Imperio español.
