The life and writings of Bartolome de las Casas / by Henry Raup Wagner, with the collaboration of Helen Rand Parish.

Index: pages 305-310.

I. -- FAMILY OF LAS CASAS. EDUCATIONOF BARTHOLOMEW. HIS FIRST VOYAGE TOAMERICA -- 2.THE DISCOVERIES OF COLUMBUS.CHARACTER OF THE AMERICAN INDIANS. THEBEGINNINGS OF SLAVERY AND THE SLAVETRADE -- 3.THE COLONY OF HISPANIOLA. ARRIVALOF LAS CASAS. CONDITION OF THECOLONISTS -- 4. THE DOMINICANS IN HISPANIOLA.THE ORDINATION OF LAS CASAS. THE CONQUESTOF CUBA. -- 5. -- THE SERMONS OF FRAY ANTONIODE MONTESINOS. THE AWAKENING OF LASCASAS. PEDRO DE LA RENTERIA -- 6. LAS CASAS RETURNS TO SPAIN.NEGOTIATIONS. CARDINAL XIMENEZ DE CISNEROS.THE JERONYMITE COMMISSIONERS -- 7. LAS CASAS AND CHARLES V.THE GRAND CHANCELLOR. NEGRO SLAVERY.EVENTS AT COURT -- 8. MONSIEUR DE LAXAO. COLONISATIONPROJECTS. RECRUITING EMIGRANTS -- 9. KNIGHTS OF THE GOLDEN SPUR.THE COURT PREACHERS. FURTHER CONTROVERSIES -- 10. THE BISHOP OF DARIEN. DEBATEWITH LAS CASAS. DISAGREEMENT WITHDIEGO COLUMBUS . -- 11. ROYAL GRANT TO LAS CASAS. THEPEARL COAST. LAS CASAS IN HISPANIOLA.FORMATION OF A COMPANY -- 12. THE IDEAL COLONY. FATE OF THECOLONISTS. FAILURE OF THE ENTERPRISE -- 13.PROFESSION OF LAS CASAS. THECACIQUE ENRIQUE. JOURNEYS OF LAS CASAS.A PEACEFUL VICTORY -- 14. THE LAND OF WAR. BULL OFPAUL III. LAS CASAS IN SPAIN. THE NEW LAWS -- 15. THE BISHOPRICS OFFERED TO LASCASAS. HIS CONSECRATION. HIS DEPARTURE -- 16. LETTER TO PHILIP II. VOYAGETO AMERICA. FEELING IN THE COLONIES. ARRIVALIN CHIAPA -- 17. RECEPTION OF LAS CASAS INHIS DIOCESE. EVENTS IN CIUDAD REAL. THEINDIANS OF CHIAPA -- 18. LAS CASAS REVISITS THELAND OF WAR. AUDIENCIA OF THE CONFINES.EVENTS AT CIUDAD REAL. LAS CASAS RETURNS -- 19. OPPOSITION TO LAS CASAS. HELEAVES CIUDAD REAL. THE MEXICAN SYNOD -- 20. LAS CASAS ARRIVES AT VALLADOLID.THE THIRTY PROPOSITIONS. DEBATEWITH GINES DE SEPULVEDA -- 21. -- SAN GREGORIO DE VALLADOLID.LAST LABOURS. THE DEATH OF LAS CASAS -- APPENDIX I. -- THE BREVISSIMA RELACION -- APPENDIX II. -- THE BULL SUBLIMIS DEUS -- ROYAL ORDINANCES PROVIDINGFOR THE DEPARTURE OF LAS CASAS FROMSPAIN AND FOR HIS RECEPTION IN THE INDIES

Bartolom e de las Casas spent 50 years of his life actively fighting slavery and the violent colonial abuse of indigenous peoples, especially by trying to convince the Spanish court to adopt a more humane policy of colonization. And although he failed to save the indigenous peoples of the Western Indies, his efforts resulted in several improvements in the legal status of the natives, and in an increased colonial focus on the ethics of colonialism. Las Casas is often seen as one of the first advocates for universal Human Rights. he was also appointed as Bishop of Chiapas, a newly established diocese of which he took possession in 1545 upon his return to the New World. He was consecrated in the Dominican Church of San Pablo on march 30th 1544, the ceremonied being officiated by two Bishops instead of by archbishop Loaysa who strongly disliked Las Casas.[54] As a Bishop Las Casas was involved in frequent conflicts with the encomenderos and secular of his diocese, among them the conquistador Bernal D iaz del Castillo. In a Pastoral letter issued on march 20th 1545 he refused absolution to slave owners and encomenderos even on their death bed, unless all their slaves had been set free and their property restituted to them.[55] Las Casas furthermore threatened that anyone who mistreated Indians within his jurisdiction would be ex-communicated. He also came into conflict with the Bishop of Guatemala Francisco Marroqu in, to whose jurisdiction the diocese had previously belonged. Bishop Marroqu in openly defied the New Laws to Las Casas's dismay. The New Laws were repealed on October 20, 1545, and riots broke out against Las Casas.[55] After a year he had made himself so unpopular among the Spaniards of the area that he had to leave.

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