Bartolomé de las Casas
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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Bartolomé de las Casas, OP was a Spanish clergyman, writer, and activist best known for his work as an 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 Ca
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Spanish clergyman, writer and activist (1474–1566)
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https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_las_Casas
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2002-08-09T11:09:48Z
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2024-09-04T18:12:38Z
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