Bartolomé de Las Casas

Bartolomé de Las Casas characterized the native population as innocent, helpless victims of Spanish imperialism, describing them as "sheep" preyed upon by "wolves and tigers" (the Spanish). He saw...

Indigenous reactions to Spanish arrival were initially peaceful and welcoming, as described by Bartolomé de las Casas. They regarded the Spaniards as divine and were open to learning about...

Although Las Casas led the fight for better treatment of Indians, he was at first a slave owner and later an advocate of the Atlantic slave trade.

De Las Casas contrasts Native Americans with Spanish colonists by portraying the indigenous people as patient, submissive, and virtuous, despite their suffering. He describes them as "innocent sheep"...

Bartolomé de las Casas’s accounts of Spain’s conquest of the New Word are graphic. He writes of colonizers breaking into settlements and slaughtering everyone, including children and pregnant women....

Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote to show the Spanish people how they should treat the natives. He hopes that they can become Spanish citizens and help strengthen Spain's territory.

Bartolome de Las Casas wrote Voices of Freedom, along with a number of other critical treatises such as A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Apologetic History of the Indies, in...

Bartolomé de las Casas, in "A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies," condemns the Spanish conquest of America for its brutal treatment of indigenous peoples. Although a Spanish Dominican...

Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Spanish priest and missionary who lived in the Caribbean, including on Cuba, and Mexico during the early sixteenth century. A member of the Dominican order, he served...