Bartolome de las Casas, O.P. (1484-1566), was a 16th-century Spanish Dominican priest, and the first resident Bishop of Chiapas. As a settler in the New World he witnessed, and was driven to oppose, the torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists. With his father, he emigrated to the island of Hispaniola in 1502 on the expedition of Nicolas de Ovando, during which he witnessed the brutalities committed against the Tai...
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