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    Bartolomé de las Casas, OP (US: /lɑːs ˈkɑːsəs/ lahss KAH-səss; Spanish: [baɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas] ; 11 November 1484 – 18 July 1566) was a Spanish clergyman...
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    controversial theologian, Dominican friar and Bishop of Chiapas Bartolomé de las Casas, argued that the Native Americans were free men in the natural order...
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    (Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias) is an account written by the Spanish Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas in 1542 (published in...
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    honor of Bartolomé de las Casas. There were some modifications in the early 20th century to the name but it returned to San Cristóbal de las Casas in 1943...
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    treatment of native peoples through Bartolomé de las Casas and Fray Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. Bartolomé de las Casas was one of the first Europeans to...
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    Residencial Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, more commonly known as Residencial Las Casas, Caserio Las Casas or Las Casas, is a public housing complex located...
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    governor of Cuba. Pánfilo's nephew was Antonio Velázquez de Narváez. Bartolomé de las Casas described him as "a man of authoritative personality, tall...
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    abstract written by Bartolomé de las Casas in preparation for his work Historia de las Indias. Since the discovery of the las Casas copy in the late 18th...
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    He is mainly known for his participation in a famous debate with Bartolomé de las Casas in Valladolid, Spain, in 1550–1551. The debate centered on the legitimacy...
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  • Fray Bartolomé de las Casas (Spanish pronunciation: [fɾaj βaɾtoloˈme ðe las ˈkasas]) is a municipality in the Guatemalan department of Alta Verapaz. The...
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    people in the New World. Montesinos' outspoken criticism influenced Bartolomé de las Casas to head the humane treatment of Indians movement. Very little is...
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    The Fountain to Bartolomé de las Casas (Spanish: Fuente de Fray Bartolomé de las Casas) is installed since 1924 outside the Mexico City Metropolitan Cathedral...
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    Alta Verapaz and Baja Verapaz) of 16th-century Guatemala, Bishop Bartolomé de las Casas mentions sexual relationships, regulated by customary law, between...
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    New York, 2005. p. 165.[ISBN missing] Bartolomé de Las Casa: Indian Freedom; The Cause of Bartolomé de las Casas, Trans by Francis Patrick Sullivan (Kansas...
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  • events and the other which served as entertainment for festivals. Bartolomé de las Casas traveled to the new world as a colonist, but once there began writing...
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  • The ZIP Code for Lascassas is 37085. The community's namesake is Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), a Spanish missionary on Christopher Columbus's third...
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    rights of the indigenous peoples, Bartolomé de las Casas, who criticized the Conquest. Though agreeing with Las Casas's criticism of the abuses of the conquistadors...
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    39. Wikidata Q115669776. Bartolomé de las Casas: A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. Peter Martyr d'Anghiera: De Orbe Novo. Samuel M. Wilson:...
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    Morison 1991, pp. 59, 198–199. Morison 1991, pp. 43–45. Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, ed. Agustín Millares Carlo, 3 vols. (Mexico City...
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    1540–1542. He was later put on trial in Spain. With the support of Bartolomé de las Casas he defended the justice of his cause by appealing to King Carlos...
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    monastery and given the name of "Enrico". One of his mentors was Bartolomé de las Casas. De las Casas was a Spanish Roman Catholic Priest focused on the rights...
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    setbacks in La Española, the island Audiencia allowed Bartolomé de las Casas to accept Friar Tomás de Berlanga's invitation to go to Nueva Granada in 1534...
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    De Thesauris in Peru is a treatise by Spanish Dominican priest and reformer Bartolomé de las Casas (1484 – July 17, 1566), who was the first resident Bishop...
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    the Atlantic. As described in the abstract of his journal made by Bartolomé de las Casas, on the outward bound voyage Columbus recorded two sets of distances:...
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    also steward for Christopher and his son Diego. Bartolomé de Las Casas, in his work Historia de las Indias, completed in 1561, was the first to say that...
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  • friars led by Bartolomé de las Casas, the famous social reformer. In 1564, the Dominican friar and social reformer Bartolomé de las Casas and his fellow...
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  • Las Casas commonly referred to as Bartolomé de las Casas (1484–1566), Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. Las Casas may also refer...
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    "Guanahatabey" is in a 1514 letter by the conquistador Diego Velázquez de Cuéllar; Bartolomé de las Casas also referred to them in 1516. Both writers described the...
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  • comes from the historic accounts of Gonzalo Fernández de Oviedo y Valdés and Bartolomé de las Casas (see picture to the right). The native name for the...
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  • was born on the Lucayan Archipelago of the Bahamas. The historian Bartolomé de las Casas, one of the first Spanish settlers in the Americas, wrote of Caonabo:...
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