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FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE

SPANISH COLONIES

Question [CLICK ON ANY CHOICE TO KNOW THE RIGHT ANSWER]
This Spanish priest sought reform for the harsh treatment of Indian slave workers. He was able to convince the Spanish royal government to pass laws outlawing the enslavement of Native Americans, although they were rarely enforced.
A
Francisco Pizarro
B
Bartolomé de Las Casas
C
Hernando Cortes
D
Moctezuma
Explanation: 

Detailed explanation-1: -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-2: -Las Casas quickly evangelized the serfs on his land, and, in either 1512 or 1513, he became a priest. On August 15, 1514, Las Casas delivered a now-famous sermon declaring his intent to return the serfs to the governor of the West Indies. Las Casas thenceforth advocated for better treatment of the American Indians.

Detailed explanation-3: -After witnessing decades of destruction in the Americas, Fray Bartolome De Las Casas deemed the Spanish colonists’ actions as unjust and contrary to their mission of converting the Natives.

Detailed explanation-4: -Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of New Spain and Peru and who strove to protect the basic rights of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire.

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