# Bartolomé de las Casas

> A conquistador-turned-friar who spent half a century documenting and fighting the Spanish destruction of Indigenous peoples in the Americas — his firsthand accounts of colonial atrocities became some of the most damning records of European conquest ever written.

*Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)*

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## Identity
- **Profile type:** Writer / Author
- **Category:** Writers
- **Country:** Spain
- **Born:** 1484-11-11
- **Died:** 1566-07-17
- **Status:** deceased
- **Gender:** male

## Bio

Born in 1484, Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in Hispaniola as one of the first Spanish settlers and initially profited from the encomienda system that enslaved Indigenous labor. In 1515 he renounced his own laborers and began a lifelong campaign against colonial abuse, entering the Dominican Order in 1522 after a failed attempt at peaceful colonization in Venezuela. He spent decades shuttling between the Americas and the Spanish court, lobbying Charles V and writing extensive chronicles — including A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies — that catalogued the brutality of the conquistadores. Appointed Bishop of Chiapas and the first "Protector of the Indians," he helped pass the New Laws of 1542, though resistance from settlers forced his return to Spain. At the 1550 Valladolid debate, he argued against those who claimed Indigenous peoples were less than human and required Spanish masters. He died in 1566, venerated enough that the Church opened his cause for beatification.

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