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In the 16th century, a debate raged in the Spanish city of Valladolid that would have far-reaching consequences for the future of the Americas. The debate pitted two influential philosophers, Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas, against each other in a clash of worldviews. At stake was the fate of the native peoples of the Americas and the morality of Spanish colonization ...
The Valladolid debate (1550–1551 in Spanish La Junta de Valladolid or La Controversia de Valladolid ) was the first moral debate in European history to discuss the rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers. Held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, in the Spanish city of Valladolid, it was a moral and theological debate ...
Jan 7, 2016 · This essay focuses on and analyzes the role of prophet that Bartolomé de Las Casas (1485–1566) lived out in the conquest and settlement of the New World. Las Casas, a Catholic Dominican friar, was the greatest defender of American Indians during the Spanish conquest of the New World. We place him squarely within the Scriptural prophetic ...
- Lawrence A. Clayton
- 2016
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Credibility and Incredulity: A Critique of Bartolomé de Las Casas‘s A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies Abstract A fierce advocate for the indigenous people of the New World, Bartolomé de Las Casas sought to promote awareness and enact legal change. Born in 1484, Las Casas grew up as exploration of the New World began.
- Alexander Allen
- 2010
Las Casas, Bartolom é e de (1474 – 1566) Spanish missionary and historian, known today as an advocate for the rights and liberty of Native Americans. Born in Seville, he was the son of a middle-class merchant who had little traditional schooling. His father and uncle joined the second expedition of Christopher Columbus.
Las Casas was born in about August 1474 in Spain. During 1493–96, his father traveled with Christopher Columbus on his second voyage to the New World. In 1502 Las Casas himself set out for the Americas. He traveled to the island of Hispaniola (now divided between Haiti and the Dominican Republic) in the Caribbean Sea.
Casas (originally CASAUS), BARTOLOME DE LAS, b. at Seville, probably in 1474; d. at Madrid, 1566. His family was from France and settled at Seville. He called himself Casaus during his youth, and changed the name to Casas later on. Francisco Casaus, or Casas, the father of Bartolome, had accompanied Columbus on his second voyage and brought ...
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