Bartolomé de las Casas
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Arriving as one of the first Spanish settlers in the Americas, Las Casas initially participated in the colonial economy built on forced indigenous labor, but eventually felt compelled to oppose the abuses committed by European colonists against the indigenous population. In 1515 he gave up his Native American laborers and ''encomienda''. He then advocated, before Charles V, on behalf of rights for the natives. In his early writings, he advocated the use of African slaves to replace indigenous labor. He did so without knowing that the Portuguese were carrying out "brutal and unjust wars in the name of spreading the faith". Later in life, he retracted this position, as he regarded both forms of slavery as equally wrong.
In 1522, Las Casas tried to launch a new kind of peaceful colonialism on the coast of Venezuela, but this venture failed. He then entered the Dominican Order and became a friar, leaving public life for a decade. He traveled to Central America, acting as a missionary among the Maya of Guatemala and participating in debates among colonial churchmen about how best to bring the natives to the Christian faith.
Travelling back to Spain to recruit more missionaries, he continued lobbying for the abolition of the ''encomienda'', gaining an important victory by the passage of the New Laws in 1542. He was appointed Bishop of Chiapas, but served only for a short time before he was forced to return to Spain because of resistance to the New Laws by the ''encomenderos'', and conflicts with Spanish settlers because of his pro-Indian policies and activist religious stance. He served in the Spanish court for the remainder of his life; there he held great influence over Indies-related issues. In 1550, he participated in the Valladolid debate, in which Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda argued that the Indians were less than human, and required Spanish masters to become civilized. Las Casas maintained that they were fully human, and that forcefully subjugating them was unjustifiable.
Las Casas spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the colonial abuse of indigenous peoples, especially by trying to convince the Spanish court to adopt a more humane policy of colonization. Although he did not completely succeed in changing Spanish views on colonization, his efforts did result in improvement of the legal status of the natives, and in an increased colonial focus on the ethics of colonialism.
Following his death in 1566, Las Casas was widely venerated as a holy figure, resulting in the opening of his cause for canonization in the Catholic Church. Provided by Wikipedia
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In defense of the Indians : the defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, late Bishop of Chiapa, against the persecutors and sl... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Witness : writings of Bartolomé de las Casas by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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La destrucción de las Indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Carta autógrafa de fray Bartolomé de las Casas al emperador Cárlos v. : Madrid 15 de diciembre de 1540. by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Los tesoros del Perú. by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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History of the Indies. by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Tratado de Indias y el doctor Sepúlveda by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Tratado cõpro batorio del Imperio soberano y principado vniuersal que los Reyes de Castilla y Leon tienen sobre las indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Fue impressa ... en Seuilla en casa d' Sebastiã Trugillo ... 1553
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Principia queda[m] ex quibus procedendum est in disputatione ad manifestandam et defendendam iusticiam Ynodomum by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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An account of the first voyages and discoveries made by the Spaniards in America : containing the most exact relation hitherto publish'd, of their unparallel'd cruelties on the Ind... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Aqui se co[n]tiene[n] treynta proposiciones muy juridicas : en las quales summaria y succintamente se toca[n] muchas cosas pertenecie[n]tes al derecho q[ue] la yglesia y los princi... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Indian freedom : the cause of Bartolomé de las Casas, 1484-1566 : a reader by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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The only way by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Colección de las obras del venerable obispo de Chiapa. by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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The devastation of the Indies : a brief account by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Baltimore : Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992
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A short account of the destruction of the Indies by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
London, England ; New York, N.Y. : Penguin Books, 1992
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Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Le scoperte di Cristoforo Colombo nei testi di Bartolomeo de Las Casas by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Aqui se cot̃ienẽ vnos auisos y reglas para los confessores oyeren confessiones delos Españoles que son o han sido en cago a los Indios delas Indias del mar Oceano: by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Popery truly display'd in its bloody colours, or, A faithful narrative of the horrid and unexampled massacres, butcheries, and all manner of cruelties, that hell and malice could i... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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