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In Defense of the Indians: The Defense of the Most Reverend Lord, Don Fray Bartolome De Las Casas, of the Order of Preachers, Late Bishop of Chiapa, Customer Reviews
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Seminal work
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This is the seminal work of Bartolome De las Casas, a Spanish conquistador and priest who became a passionate defender of the native people of the Americas and has, of late, been accused of thus provoking the slave trade. However that was not his intention as is clear in this primary source, his original appeals on behalf of the natives. Las Casas was appaled by what he saw in the new world in the last years of the 15th century and the first of the 16th. He understood that the natives should be saved as a people and that they deserved better treatment than to be made slaves, worked to death or having their arms lopped off because they could not produce enough gold.
A passioante defense, Las Cases' work might be said to be one fo the first published works on human rights. A major landmark and an importatn document in the history of Christianity, the new world, colonialism and the West.
Seth J. Frantzman |
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