Bartolomé de las Casas Concepts

Cuba Travel Guide

by Lonely Planet

Trinidad on Cuba’s south coast, the island’s third settlement after Baracoa and Bayamo. Legend has it that erstwhile ‘Apostle of the Indians’ Fray Bartolomé de las Casas held Trinidad’s first Mass under a calabash tree in present-day Plazuela Real del Jigúe. In 1518 Velázquez’ former secretary, Hernán Cortés, passed through

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here). This building has been ransacked, burned, rocked by earthquakes and rebuilt, then remodeled and restored and ransacked again. Statues of Christopher Columbus and Fray Bartolomé de las Casas flank the entrance in ironic juxtaposition. If you’re tired already, step out onto the lazy terrace bar at Hotel Casa Granda (Click here) on

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landowners on the pretext that they were receiving free ‘lessons’ in Christianity. The brutal system lasted 20 years before the ‘Apostle of the Indians,’ Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, appealed to the Spanish Crown for more humane treatment, and in 1542 the encomiendas were abolished for the indigenous people. For the unfortunate Taínos, the

The Rough Guide to Mexico

by Rough Guides · 15 Jan 2022

10m walls, arches, columns and hall were all in remarkably good shape. It was built in 1564 by a group of Dominican friars led by Bartolomé de las Casas, who later became the first Bishop of Chiapas and – after initially supporting colonial policies – a fierce critic of the Spanish subjugation of Mexico’s Indigenous

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-called Villareal de Chiapa de los Españoles was more widely known as Villaviciosa (Evil City) for the oppressive exploitation exercised by its colonists. In 1544, Bartolomé de las Casas was appointed bishop, and he promptly took an energetic stance in defence of the native population, playing a similar role to that of Bishop Vasco

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arranged around attractive courtyards. Book ahead, as it’s often busy with tour groups. M$$$ Fray Bartolomé de las Casas Niños Héroes 2, at Insurgentes; 967 678 0932, http://facebook.com/hotelfraybartolome. Split into two sections, Fray Bartolomé de las Casas has a charming older wing, arranged around a pretty courtyard with a central fountain. The newer section

Ambition, a History

by William Casey King · 14 Sep 2013 · 317pp · 84,674 words

was often marked by savage exploitation and violence. In fact, much of the English propaganda drew on Spanish self-critical eyewitness accounts, notably that of Bartolomé de las Casas. In 1552, the former New World colonist, Dominican friar, and self-proclaimed protector of the Indians published a work that castigated Spain for its treatment

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for the development of an iconography of the past cannot be overemphasized.”24 Theodor de Bry’s engravings of Spanish colonization fueled the Black Legend. Bartolomé de las Casas, Narratio regionum Indicarum per Hispanos quosdam deuastatarum verissima … (Frankfurt, 1598). People in early modern England, of course, were unaware of germ theory and the impact

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Gómara’s Historia general de las Indias. Gómara’s work was published in 1552, shortly after the famous debates between Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda and Bartolomé de las Casas at Valladolid.33 It was what scholar Glen Carman describes as “an instant success.” He writes, “Within two years of its release, there were eight

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individuals to “serve, populate and remain in the said land.”80 Perhaps the first explicit effort to bait ambition was made in 1519–1520 by Bartolomé de las Casas. Following on the heels of his failed efforts to recruit simple farmers to colonize the New World, Las Casas adopted a different tactic for his

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. See also Philip Wayne Powell, Tree of Hate: Propaganda and Prejudices Affecting United States Relations with the Hispanic World (New York: Basic Books, 1971). 18. Bartolomé de las Casas, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, trans. Nigel Griffin (New York: Penguin, 1992), 12. 19. Bartholomew de las Casas, The Spanish Colonie

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Spain (Boston: Brill, 2007), esp. ch. 4. 73. Christopher Columbus, The Diario of Christopher Columbus’s First Voyage to America, 1492–1493, abstracted by Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, trans. Oliver Dunn and James E. Kelley (Norman: University of Oklahoma Press, 1989). This is a useful edition as it includes both the original Spanish

The Other Slavery: The Uncovered Story of Indian Enslavement in America

by Andrés Reséndez · 11 Apr 2016 · 532pp · 162,509 words

: islands large and small covered by lush vegetation, teeming with insects and birds, and alive with humans. The Caribbean was “a beehive of people,” wrote Bartolomé de Las Casas, the most well known of the region’s early chroniclers, who accompanied several expeditions of discovery. “As we saw with our own eyes,” he added

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the Spaniards’ most devastating weapon was germs.2 And yet there is a profound disconnection between this biological explanation and what sixteenth-century Europeans reported. Bartolomé de Las Casas, who arrived in the New World in 1502, averred that greed was the reason Christians “murdered on such a vast scale,” killing “anyone and everyone

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goods.) “All prudent and learned readers will immediately recognize the justice of this tribute, and the violence, fear, and death that its imposition necessitated,” warned Bartolomé de Las Casas. Although some caciques (chiefs) made halfhearted efforts to meet the Spanish quota, this method of obtaining gold failed completely. Most Indians did everything they could

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activists gathered around the Spanish court to stem the tide of further disaster in the early 1540s. The most visible figure among them was Friar Bartolomé de Las Casas. One of his favorite tactics consisted of scandalizing court members by reading aloud from a manuscript that he would go on to publish a decade

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In contrast, in Central America an uncompromising and vigorous royal official named Alonso López de Cerrato embarked on blanket liberations of Indian slaves. Next to Bartolomé de Las Casas, Cerrato ranks as the most ardent champion of Indian liberty of the sixteenth century. As president of the Audiencia of Central America, Judge Cerrato prosecuted

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, The Problem of Slavery as History: A Global Approach (New Haven, CT: Yale University Press, 2012), passim. 1. CARIBBEAN DEBACLE 1. The quotes are from Bartolomé de Las Casas, The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account (Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press, 1992), 27; and Christopher Columbus, The Four Voyages (New York: Penguin, 1969

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by Columbus. By “Indies” they meant distant lands to the west of Spain. On Columbus’s triumphal entrance into Barcelona and the other quotes, see Bartolomé de Las Casas, Historia de las Indias, 3 vols. (Mexico City: Fondo de Cultura Económica, 1986), 1:332–333. For details of the tropical birds, see Pietro Martire

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Carmen Chaves Tesser, eds., The Forgotten Centuries: Indians and Europeans in the American South, 1521–1704 (Athens: University of Georgia Press, 1994), 36–49. 50. Bartolomé de Las Casas, En defensa de los indios (Barcelona: Biblioteca de Cultura Andaluza, 1985), 127. On the use of attack dogs, see John Grier Varner and Jeannette Johnson

Sugar: A Bittersweet History

by Elizabeth Abbott · 14 Sep 2011 · 522pp · 144,511 words

individual,” a recent study explains.28 Until the Europeans arrived, the Taino population numbered anywhere from three million to just under eight million.29 When Bartolomé de Las Casas arrived in 1502, their extermination was already foreseeable. In 1514, their Spanish conquerors counted only twenty thousand survivors. In 1542, Las Casas recorded only two

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232-acre reserve allocated them by the British, who won Dominica from the French in 1763. Today, Caribs still live in Dominica and St. Vincent. BARTOLOMÉ DE LAS CASAS, SUGAR PLANTER AND GUILTY WITNESS The brutality of New World slavery was condemned even as it was being developed. Its first public critics were the

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the slightest twinge of conscience at the human cost of so much squandered sweetness? Does the spectacle remind him of the Valladolid debate, for which Bartolomé de Las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda are even now preparing? Whatever Charles might have thought that night, Mary of Hungary’s party did not set the

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save mankind, reinforced theological arguments against slavery, and the late-eighteenth-century intellectual climate made it easier to conclude that mankind included blacks. Except for Bartolomé de Las Casas, who focused international attention on the plight of Indian and, belatedly, black slaves, little Christian-derived concern for slaves had penetrated sugar culture. From the

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Casas-Sepúlveda Controversy, 1550–1551,” www.sfsu.edu/~epf/2001/hernandez.html. 38. Carrozza, “Bartolomé de Las Casas,” www.lascasas.org/carrozo.htm. 39. Ibid. 40. Quoted in Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, pp. 183–85. 41. Davidson, Black Mother, p. 66. 42. Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, p. 102. 43. E. Williams, From Columbus to Castro, p. 43. 44. Las Casas

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, Obras Escogidas, vol. II, 487–88, quoted in Sanderlin, Bartolomé de Las Casas, pp. 100–102. 45. E. Williams, From Columbus

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–1985. London, Baltimore: Edward Arnold, 1987. Kirkpatrick Sale, The Conquest of Paradise: Christopher Columbus and the Columbian Legacy. New York: Plume, 1991. George Sanderlin (ed.), Bartolomé de Las Casas: A Selection of His Writings. New York: Alfred A. Knopf, 1975. Keith Albert Sandiford, The Cultural Politics of Sugar: Caribbean Slavery and Narratives of Colonialism

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’s History Review, vol. 10, no. 3 (2001), pp. 381–408. Marie Brenner, “In the Kingdom of Big Sugar,” Vanity Fair, Feb. 2001. Paolo Carrozza, “Bartolomé de Las Casas, the Midwife of Modern Human Rights Talk,” in “From Conquest to Constitutions: Retrieving a Latin American Tradition of the Idea of Human Rights,” www.lascasas

A Voyage Long and Strange: On the Trail of Vikings, Conquistadors, Lost Colonists, and Other Adventurers in Early America

by Tony Horwitz · 1 Jan 2008

the people who came with him.” While Pane is forgotten, another Spanish friar in Hispaniola is renowned to this day as “Defender of the Indians.” Bartolomé de Las Casas arrived in Santo Domingo in 1502, at the age of eighteen, and prospered from the sweat of Taino awarded him through the encomienda system, which

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place, burning alive everyone inside. Caonabo’s comely widow was spared the inferno. “As a mark of respect and out of deference to her rank,” Bartolomé de Las Casas wrote, “Queen Anacaona was hanged.” THOUGH THE LAST Taino perished in the sixteenth century, they had a long half-life in the Dominican imagination. With

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present, or was delivered from a distance of several miles, or uttered at night while Indians slept, unaware of an impending attack. The Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas declared that he didn’t know “whether to laugh or to cry” at the absurdity of the document. The Indians gathered before Cibola had a

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could just make out a channel of the river and tried to imagine De Soto at the bottom, sleeping with the catfish. The Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas consigned De Soto to an even deeper grave. Calling him “butcher-in-chief,” Las Casas wrote: “There can be no doubt that he is now

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Society, 1906. Pane’s writing is also tucked within The Life of the Admiral Christopher Columbus by His Son Ferdinand, translated by Benjamin Keen. For Bartolomé de Las Casas, I turned to the Penguin Classic edition of A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, translated by Nigel Griffin, with an excellent introduction

1491

by Charles C. Mann · 8 Aug 2005 · 666pp · 189,883 words

windfalls or disasters happenstance put in their way. The Noble Savage dates back as far as the first full-blown ethnography of American indigenous peoples, Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Apologética Historia Sumaria, written mainly in the 1530s. Las Casas, a conquistador who repented of his actions and became a priest, spent the second

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the time that he first landed.” Cook and Borah calculated that the area did not recover its fifteenth-century population until the late 1960s. From Bartolomé de Las Casas on, Europeans have known that their arrival brought about a catastrophe for Native Americans. “We, Christians, have destroyed so many kingdoms,” reflected Pedro Cieza de

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, Jews were cowardly and greedy, and Indians were not. Others did not find his refutation convincing. The Lost Tribes theory was endorsed by authorities from Bartolomé de Las Casas to William Penn, founder of Pennsylvania, and the famed minister Cotton Mather. (In a variant, the Book of Mormon argued that some Indians were descended

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died within months—but not before passing it on to some luckless bedmate. Díaz de Isla’s testimony was backed by the pro-Indian cleric Bartolomé de Las Casas, who was in Seville when Columbus returned. Syphilis seems to have existed in the Americas before 1492—the third argument. In the mid-1990s Bruce

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. PhD diss. University of Wisconsin, Madison. Las Casas, B. d. 1992a. Apologética Historia Sumaria, in V. A. Castelló, et al., eds., Obras Completas de Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. Madrid: Alianza Editorial, vols. 6–8 (1560). ———. 1992b. The Devastation of the Indies: A Brief Account. Trans. H. Briffault. Baltimore: Johns Hopkins University Press (1552

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los trabajos arqueológicos realizado por el Proyecto Arqueológico Pumapunku-Akapana.” Unpub. ms. Wagner, H. R., with H. R. Parish. 1967. The Life and Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas. Albuquerque, NM: University of New Mexico Press. Wagner, S. R. 2001. Sisters in Spirit: Haudenosaunee (Iroquois) Influence on Early American Feminists. Summertown, TN: Native Voices

Central America

by Carolyn McCarthy, Greg Benchwick, Joshua Samuel Brown, Alex Egerton, Matthew Firestone, Kevin Raub, Tom Spurling and Lucas Vidgen · 2 Jan 2001

(then called Nueva España). The indigenous population was subjected to violent rule, tempered slightly after pleas to King Carlos V of Spain by Dominican friar Bartolomé de Las Casas in 1542. A colonial capital was established at Antigua in 1543. After a 1773 earthquake destroyed it, a new capital was created at Guatemala City

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are on the small menu. The cakes are homemade, the coffee delectable and there are some interesting handicrafts for sale. Café Fantasia (Oficinas Profesionales Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, 1a Calle 3-13; breakfast Q20-30; Mon-Sat) Another good central cafe, this one offers several types of hot chocolate. It’s a cozy

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that way. Or head from Cobán to El Estor, on Lago de Izabal, or to Poptún in El Petén on the backdoor route via Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. Minibuses, known as microbuses, are replacing, or are additional to, chicken buses on many routes. Many buses leave from Cobán’s Campo Dos bus terminal

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the river. There’s no electricity, but meals and tours are available. Bookings are advised. COBÁN TO POPTÚN The Cobán to Poptún route via Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas used to be a desolate dirt road. Nowadays, plenty of buses and pick-ups ply the decent roads. This route is a great opportunity for

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you to get off the Gringo Trail and into the heart of Guatemala. The hospitable town of Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas, often referred to as ‘Fray’ (pronounced fry), is sizable for the middle of nowhere. You can’t make it from Cobán to Poptún in one

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Poptún is about halfway between Río Dulce and Flores, and makes a good stopover en route to Tikal, especially if you’re coming via Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas. Most buses and minibuses stop on the main road through town: Fuente del Norte buses stop by the Shell station; minibuses to San Luís, 16km

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every hour or two almost around the clock. The best option is to take a minibus (Q30; about every 10 minutes; 6am to 6pm). Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas (Q65; five hours; 100km) A bus departs at 10:30am daily from opposite Banrural a block south of Av 15 de Septiembre; the journey takes

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by David Baird, Juan Cristiano, Lynne Bairstow and Emily Hughey Quinn · 21 Sep 2007

Agrarismo ajo ab 13 Valladolid Aquiles Serdan N Las Monjas Palacio Federal/ Templo de las Monjas Alzate Bus Church Post Office Information 14 San Francisco Bartolomé de las Casas Humboldt Plaza San Francisco Avenida Madero Oriente San José 1/8 mi Plan de Ayala 125 meters To Aqueduct & Calzada Fray Antonio de San Miguel

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. It lies in a green valley 2,120m (6,954 ft.) high. The city owes part of its name to the 16th-century cleric Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, who was the town’s first bishop and spent the rest of his life waging a political campaign to protect the indigenous peoples of the

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make the case that Indigenous people should be granted more rights. One of those to make this argument most forcefully was a Spanish priest named Bartolomé de las Casas.46 Las Casas was aged just nine when he first saw an Aztec. His father had travelled to the Americas on Columbus’s second voyage

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and 63–71. 46Diego von Vacano, ‘Las Casas and the Birth of Race’, History of Political Thought 33 (2012), Manuel Giménez Fernández, ‘Fray Bartolomé de las Casas: A Biographical Sketch’, in Bartolomé de las Casas in History: Towards an Understanding of the Man and His Work, eds. Juan Friede and Benjamin Keen (DeKalb: Illinois University Press, 1971), 67

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the American Indians’, Proceedings of the Royal Irish Academy 80 (1980): 57–9, Vacano, ‘Las Casas’, 401–10, and Giménez Fernández, ‘Fray Bartolomé de las Casas’, 67–73. 48Bartolomé de las Casas, Bartolomé de las Casas: A Selection of His Writings, trans. George Sanderlin (New York: Alfred Knopf, 1971), 114–5, and Christian Johns, The Origins of Violence

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