Bartolomé de las Casas
Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)
SpainSpanish Dominican friar and writer who spent his life documenting and condemning the brutality of conquest in the Caribbean. His accounts of conquistador atrocities remain the era's most visceral records of colonization's human cost.
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Bartolomé de las Casas, OP ; 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 atroc…
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