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Bartolomé de las Casas was the principal defender of the Indians in the Junta of Valladolid Spain's colonization and conquest of the Americas inspired an intellectual debate especially regarding the compulsory Christianization of the Indians.
This tract, a summary of a debate concerning the subjugation of Indians, contains the arguments of Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, and Juan Gines Sepulveda, an influential Spanish philosopher, concerning the treatment of American Indians in the New World.
A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies [2] [3] (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in 1552) about the mistreatment of and atrocities committed against the indigenous peoples of the Americas in colonial times and ...
17 cze 2022 · The most important work by Bartolomé de Las Casas was his 1522 "A Very Brief Recital of the Destruction of the Indies", which revealed the terrible abuses of indigenous peoples in the Americas by Spanish conquistadors and settlers.
Before a council consisting of Cardinal García de Loaysa, the Count of Osorno, Bishop Fuenleal, and several members of the Council of the Indies, Las Casas argued that the only solution to the problem was to remove all Indians from the care of secular Spaniards, by abolishing the encomienda system and putting them instead directly under the ...
23 sty 2024 · In 1516, De las Casas was named Universal Protector of all the Indians of the Indies. He was in charge of overseeing the protection of the natives in the Caribbean and the mainland. A highly controversial topic even today, the Spanish conquest and colonization of the Americas remains a fundamental chapter in understanding the history of the ...
2 dni temu · 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).
