Bartolom De Las Casas

Bartolom De Las Casas (1484-1566)

Bartolom de las Casas O.P. (c. 1484 18 July 1566) was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the poor treatment of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists and advocated before King Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor on behalf of rights for the natives. Originally having proposed to replace the slave labor of the natives with the importation of slaves from Africa, he eventually recanted this stance as well, and became an advocate for the Africans in the colonies.

Bartolome De Las Casas's Books:

[A Brief Account Of The Destruction Of The Indies]

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