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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First voyage to America : from the log of the "Santa Maria" by Columbus, Christopher
New York : Dover Publications, 1991Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Las Casas as a bishop : a new interpretation based on his holograph petition in the Hans P. Kraus Collection of Hispanic American manuscripts = Las Casas, obispo : una nueva interp... by Parish, Helen Rand
Washington : Library of Congress : For sale by the Supt. of Docs., U.S. Govt. Print. Off., 1980Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Bartolome de las Casas and Thomas More's Utopia : connections and similarities : a translation and study by Baptiste, Victor N.
Culver City, Calif. : Labyrinthos, 1990Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Estudios lascasianos.
Sevilla : Facultad de Filosofía y Letras, Universidad de Sevilla, Escuela de Estudios Hispano-americanos, 1966Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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El diario de Cristóbal Colón by Columbus, Christopher
Lincolnwood, Ill. : National Textbook Co., 1998Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Western expansion and indigenous people : the heritage of Las Casas
The Hague : Chicago : Mouton ; Distributed in the USA and Canada by Aldine, 1977Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Personal narrative of the first voyage of Columbus to America by Columbus, Christopher
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Western expansion and indigenous peoples : the heritage of Las Casas
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Descubrimiento del continente americano ; relación del tercer viaje por Cristóbal Colón. Edición facsímil de la carta enviada a los Reyes, según el texto manuscrito por el P.... by Columbus, Christopher
[Madrid] : [Gráficas Yagües], 1962Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Journal of Christopher Columbus. by Columbus, Christopher
London, Blond, 1968Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Los cuatro viajes del almirante y su testamento by Columbus, Christopher
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Los cuatro viajes del almirante y su testamento; by Columbus, Christopher
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The journal of Christopher Columbus by Columbus, Christopher
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Diario de a bordo de Cristóbal Colón. by Columbus, Christopher
Alpignano : En la emprenta de A Tallone, 1971Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Los cuatro viajes del almirante y su testamento by Columbus, Christopher
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The journal of Christopher Columbus by Columbus, Christopher
London : Printed for the Hakluyt Society, 1893Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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Journal of first voyage to America by Columbus, Christopher
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El primer viaje de Cristóbal Colón. by Columbus, Christopher
Madrid, Instituto Histórico de marina, 1943Other Authors: “…Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566…”
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The log of Christopher Columbus' first voyage to America in the year 1492 by Columbus, Christopher
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The letters of Amerigo Vespucci and other documents illustrative of his career. by Vespucci, Amerigo, 1451-1512
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