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, he tried to launch a new kind of peaceful colonialism on the coast of Venezuela, but this venture failed. Las Casas 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.
Bartolomé de 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. Provided by Wikipedia
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Las Casas on Columbus : background and the second and fourth voyages by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Brevísima relación de la destruición [sic] de las Indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Madrid : Cátedra, 1996
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Entre los remedios q̃ dõ fray Bartolome delas Casas : obispo d'la ciudad real de Chiapa: refirio por mandado del Emperador rey nr̃o senor: enlos ayuntamiẽntos q̃ mãdo hazer su m... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Sevilla : Jacome Crõberger, 1552
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Tears of the Indians, by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias. by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Breuissima relacion de la destruycion de las Indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Historia de las Indias publicada ahora por vez primera, conforme á los originales del autor, que se custodian en la biblioteca de la Academia de historia y en el Nacional de esta... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Aqui se cotiene vna disputa o controuersia : entre el Obispo dõ fray Bartholome de las Casas o Casaus obispo q̃ fue dela ciudad Real de Chiapa que es en las Indias parte dela nueu... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, with related texts by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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A short account of the destruction of the Indies by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Las Casas on Columbus : the third voyage by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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The Spanish Colonie : or Briefe Chronicle of the Acts and gestes of the Spaniardes in the West Indies, called the newe World, for the space of XL yeeres by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
London : William Brome & Thomas Dawson, 1583
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Apologética historia de las Indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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The tears of the Indians : being an historical and true account of the cruel massacres and slaughters of above twenty millions of innocent people : committed by the Spaniards in th... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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El evangelio y la violencia by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Narratio Regionvm Indicarvm Per Hispanos qvosdam deuastatarum verissima : priùs quidam per Episcopum Bartholomæum Casaum, natione Hispanum Hispanicè conscripta, & Anno 1551 : His... by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Principia quedã ex quibus procedendum est in disputatione ad manifestandam et defendendam iusticiam Yndorum by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Brevísima relacíon de la destruccíon de las Indias. by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
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Brevísima relación de la destruición de las Indias by Casas, Bartolomé de las, 1484-1566
Madrid : Cátedra, 2013
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