![]() Bartolome de las Casas (14741566), the Bishop of. By considering Las Casas’s ideas, actions, and even regrets in tandem, readers will understand the historical dynamics of Spanish imperialism more acutely within the social-political context of the times. Nor did the propagandists mention that the Spanish themselves sharply condemned the excesses in the Americas. Lantigua places these writings into a synthetic whole, tracing his advocacy for indigenous peoples throughout his career. It also presents Las Casas as a more comprehensive and systematic philosophical and legal thinker than he is typically given credit for. This volume focuses on his historical, political, and legal writings that address the deeply conflicted and violent sixteenth-century encounter between Europeans and indigenous peoples of the Americas. Fifteen of the twenty-six documents are entirely new translations of Las Casas’s writings, a number of them appearing in English for the first time. It contains not only excerpts from his most well-known texts, but also his largely unavailable writings on political philosophy and law, and addresses the underappreciated aspects of his thought. Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian Rights: A Brief History with Documents provides the most wide-ranging and concise anthology of Las Casas’s writings, in translation, ever made available. ![]() He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus’s first voyage for posterity by transcribing it in his History of the Indies before the diary was lost. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked law and Biblical scripture to challenge European colonialism in the great age of the Encounter. He is remembered principally as the creator of the Black Legend, as well as the protector of American Indians. Although initially an owner of native slaves, he was always uneasy with the Spanish treatment of Native Americans. From 1502 on, he lived almost continually in the New World. ![]() An accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolomé de las Casas With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolomé de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. Born in Seville, Spain, in 1474, Bartolomé de las Casas was among the first wave of Spanish missionaries in the New World.
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