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  2. Mar 21, 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. His several works include Historia de las Indias (first printed in 1875).

  3. Nov 6, 2020 · Fast Facts: Bartolomé de Las Casas. Known For: Las Casas was a Spanish colonist and friar who advocated for better treatment of Indigenous peoples. Born: c. 1484 in Seville, Spain. Died: July 18, 1566 in Madrid, Spain. Published Works: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, Apologetic History of the Indies, History of the Indies.

  4. May 11, 2018 · Bartolomé de Las Casas (1474-1566) was a Spanish priest, social reformer, and historian. He was the principal organizer and champion of the 16th-century movement in Spain and Spanish America in defense of the Indians.

  5. Bartolomé de Las Casas, O.P. (1484 – July 17, 1566) was a sixteenth century Spanish priest and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World, he was galvanized by witnessing the brutal torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.

  6. 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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  7. The most famous A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias of his extensive writings chronicle the first decades of colonization of the west and focus particularly on the atrocities that the colonizers committed against the indigenous.

  8. Nov 3, 1992 · The Dominican priest Bartolom 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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