Also known as Bartolome de Las Casas Laury Isabella Jauregui, Bartholomé de Las Casas, Bartolomeo de Las Casas
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)
Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Spanish Dominican friar and historian who lived from 1474 to 1566 and became a prominent advocate for social reform. He is remembered for his efforts to defend indigenous peoples and challenge the harsh treatment they faced during the Spanish conquest of the Americas, making him an important early voice against colonialism and exploitation.
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Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ( US: /lɑːs ˈkɑːsəs/ lahss KAH-səss; Spanish pronunciation: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas]); 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish lawyer, clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as a historian and social reformer. He arrived in Hispaniola as a layman, then became a Dominican friar. He was appointed as the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the Caribbean islands. He described and railed against the atrocities committed by the conquistadores against the Indigenous peoples.
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 Indigenous Caribbean 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.
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