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Who was Bartolome la Casas?

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Anonymous

14y ago
Updated: 6/9/2023

Bartolome de las Casas was a priest that wanted Native Americans to be treated with love, gentleness, and kindness. Bartolome de las Casas was a 16th-century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas and was appointed the "Protector of the Indians."
Chief source of information about what happened on the island when Columbus arrives; was a priest and plantation owner

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Vickie Schuster

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2y ago

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