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  2. 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.

  3. Bartolomé de Las Casas was an outspoken critic of the Spanish colonial government in the Americas. Las Casas was especially critical of the system of slavery in the West Indies . In 1515–16 he developed a plan for the reformation of the Indies with the help of religious reformer Francisco Jiménez de Cisneros .

  4. Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish historian and colonist, also known as a Dominican friar. He was also one of the first Europeans to openly condemn the atrocities committed by Europeans on the Native Indians of the Latin American lands and the West Indies. He called for the abolition of slavery in the American peninsula.

  5. 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.

  6. Bartolomé de las Casas OP was a sixteenth-century business entrepreneur in the Spanish Empire who, when confronted by the suffering of indigenous peoples, became a Dominican friar and began to campaign as an opponent of genocide in the “new world” and a vocal advocate for human rights.

  7. The Editors of Encyclopaedia Britannica. Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Dominican priest and missionary in the Americas. Las Casas—who was ordained in either 1512 or 1513—may have been the first person in America to receive holy orders. He is remembered as “the Apostle of the Indians,” the man who first exposed the oppression of the ...

  8. Introduction. 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. Early Life. Las Casas was born in about August 1474 in Spain.

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