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Alice J. Knight traces Bartolomé de las Casas's efforts to protect the people of the Indies from cruelty under Spanish rule. The biography begins in Seville, with his family background, studies at Salamanca and early hopes of making money overseas. Knight presents his later devotion to justice and mercy as an example of religious duty, linking the account of his life to the wider history of exploration and settlement.
The historical narrative gives practical detail to that moral purpose. In the middle excerpt, opponents pay a mason to abandon a fort Las Casas has planned, while pressure grows for him to seek help in San Domingo. The settlement he leaves behind faces mounting danger.
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- Author
- Alice J. Knight
- Reading time
- About 90 minutes
- Pages
- 55
- Language
- English
- Genre
- Christianity
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- PDF, EPUB, Read online