FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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Bartolome de las Casa was unable to get the royal government to listen to him and pass the laws to protect the Indians.
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The royal government passed laws prohibiting the enslavement of Native Americans, but the Indians decided they were grateful to work for the Spanish.
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The royal government passed laws prohibiting the enslavement of Native Americans, but few officials in Spain enforced the new laws.
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The royal government passed laws prohibiting the enslavement of Native Americans, but the new laws did not apply in the Spanish colonies.
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Detailed explanation-1: -He argued that the Indians were free subjects of the Castilian crown, and their property remained their own. At the same time, he stated that evangelization and conversion should be done through peaceful persuasion and not through violence or coercion.
Detailed explanation-2: -Las Casas was finally convinced that all the actions of the Spanish in the New World had been illegal and that they constituted a great injustice. He made up his mind to give up his slaves and encomienda, and started to preach that other colonists should do the same.
Detailed explanation-3: -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-4: -One of the stated purposes for writing the account is his fear of Spain coming under divine punishment and his concern for the souls of the Native peoples.