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- Bartolomé de las Casas was a Dominican friar and the chief opponent of Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda during the Valladolid Debate. He argued against the subjugation of the indigenous peoples of the Americas and presented several arguments to support his position.
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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.
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
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 ...
- Lawrence A. Clayton
- 2016
Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Spanish priest who lived and worked in the New World in the early 1500s. For much of his life, Las Casas argued against the poor treatment of American Indians by the Spanish colonists.
‘The charge often made against Las Casas, that he introduced negro slavery into the New World, is unjust. As early as 1505 negroes were sent to the Antilles to work in mines. After that they were repeatedly imported, but without his cooperation. Besides, slavery was at that time sanctioned by Spanish custom and law.
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 of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire.
Bartolome de las Casas was a Spanish priest who spoke out against the cruel treatment of the Amerindians. Learn about the encomienda system, and examine Bartolome de las Casas as a bishop,...
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