USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Bartolomé de Las Casas, (born 1474 or 1484, Sevilla?, Spain-died July 1566, Madrid), early Spanish historian and Dominican missionary who was the first to expose the oppression of indigenous peoples by Europeans in the Americas and to call for the abolition of slavery there.

Detailed explanation-2: -Bartolomé de Las Casas was a Dominican priest who was one of the first Spanish settlers in the New World. After participating in the conquest of Cuba, Las Casas freed his own slaves and spoke out against Spanish cruelties and injustices in the empire.

Detailed explanation-3: -Bartolomé de Las Casas, a Spanish Dominican priest, wrote directly to the King of Spain hoping for n ew laws to prevent the brutal exploitation of Native Americans .

Detailed explanation-4: -Bartolomé de Las Casas, (born August 1474, Sevilla?-died July 17, 1566, Madrid), Spanish historian and missionary, called the Apostle of the Indies. He sailed on Christopher Columbus’s third voyage (1498) and later became a planter on Hispaniola (1502). In 1510 he became the first priest ordained in the Americas.

Detailed explanation-5: -Las Casas sought to change the methods of the Spanish conquest, and believed that both the Spaniards and indigenous communities could build a new civilization in America together.