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Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas. B. ca. 1484 in Seville to merchant and his wife Went on Columbus’s 3d voyage to Caribbean, 1502 Participated in conquest of Cuba; witnessed massacres Was made encomendero , 1503. Encomienda system.

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Bartolomé de Las Casas

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  1. Bartolomé de Las Casas • B. ca. 1484 in Seville to merchant and his wife • Went on Columbus’s 3d voyage to Caribbean, 1502 • Participated in conquest of Cuba; witnessed massacres • Was made encomendero, 1503

  2. Encomienda system • Spanish colonists received tracts of land and Indians compelled to work it • Laws of Burgos, 1513: Indians to get Christian instruction and limited work hours • Indians also supposed to get protection and small wage • Reality: crown cannot control colonists; encomienda system is slavery

  3. Back to Las Casas • Becomes priest, 1510 • Hears Dominican Antonio Montesinos lecture population of Santo Domingo on its treatment of Indians, 1511 • Study of Ecclesiasticus in preparation for Easter sermon, 1514, leads Las Casas to “conversion.” He frees his slaves. • Returns to Spain, 1515, to tell king of evils done in New World

  4. Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies • First composed 1541-42 for king (emperor) • Published with amendments and additions, 1552. Widely translated and read. • Las Casas’s participation in debate organized in Valladolid (Spain) on whether Indians were subhuman inspired him to publish this work.

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