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Bartolomé de Las Casas was a prolific writer. He wrote many petitions, treatises, and books on the subject of the Spanish conquest of the Americas . His most famous works included the Historia apologética ( Apologetic History ) and the Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ( A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ).
Hacienda owner, priest, missionary, bishop, writer. Signature. Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ( US: / lɑːs ˈkɑːsəs / lahss KAH-səss; Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas] ⓘ; 11 November 1484 [1] – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer.
Jan 9, 2007 · Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566. Title. A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Or, a faithful NARRATIVE OF THE Horrid and Unexampled Massacres, Butcheries, and all manner of Cruelties, that Hell and Malice could invent, committed by the Popish Spanish Party on the inhabitants of West-India, TOGETHER With the Devastations of ...
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Jun 29, 2012 · The Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas (1485–1566) was a prominent chronicler of the early Spanish conquest of the Americas, a noted protector of the American Indians, and arguably the most significant figure in the early Spanish Empire after Christopher Columbus.
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Bartolomé de las Casas has 265 books on Goodreads with 15679 ratings. Bartolomé de las Casas’s most popular book is A Short Account of the Destruction of...
Feb 1, 1992 · by Bartolomé de Las Casas (Author), Herma Briffault (Translator), Bill Donovan (Introduction) 4.7 133 ratings. See all formats and editions. Five hundred years after Columbus's first voyage to the New World, the debate over the European impact on Native American civilization has grown more heated than ever.
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Sep 15, 2015 · Bartolomé de las Casas, Nigel Griffin (Editor), Anthony Pagden (Introduction) 3.72. 3,810 ratings483 reviews. Bartolomé de Las Casas was the first and fiercest critic of Spanish colonialism in the New World. An early traveller to the Americas who sailed on one of Columbus's voyages, Las Casas was so horrified by the wholesale massacre he ...
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