Bartolomé de Las Casas

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How did Bartolomé de Las Casas advise the Council of the Indies and the Spanish king?
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Bartolomé de Las Casas

Spanish historian and missionary

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Professor of Ethics, National Autonomous University of Mexico, Mexico City. Author of Les Évêques hispano-américaine (1504–1620) and others.

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Bartolomé de Las Casas (born 1474 or 1484, Sevilla?, Spain—died July 1566, Madrid) was an early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there. His several works include Historia de las Indias (first printed in 1875). A prolific writer and in his later years an influential figure of the Spanish court, Las Casas...

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