Las Casas, Bartolome de

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Las Casas, Bartolomé de

Born 1474 in Seville; died July 31, 1566, in Madrid. Spanish humanist, historian, and publicist.

Las Casas graduated from the University of Salamanca. He began his missionary work in Haiti, Cuba, Venezuela, and Guatemala in 1502. Las Casas was a bishop in Mexico between 1544 and 1550 and returned to Spain in 1551. He spoke out in defense of the oppressed Indians, exposing the cruelties of the Conquista and calling for an end to slavery. He wrote several works on the history and ethnography of Central and South America, which are valuable sources on the history of the discovery of America and its seizure by Spain.

REFERENCES

Bartolome de Las-Kasas. Moscow, 1966. (Bibliography, pp. 221–27.)

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