Bartolomé de las Casas

celebration of a violent historical figure (Columbus), empire, and genocide” (Tinker and Freeland, 2008, Pg.26). To do this, the authors use many primary resources from the “invasion” of America. Figures like Peter Martyr, Fernandez de Oviedo y Valdes, and Bartolome de Las Casas are the original sources that are quoted to show population numbers and conditions (Tinker and Freeland, 2008,…

In Part A, The Native Americans, one will read about two very different ideas regarding the nature of the American Indians. The first read is based off the views of Juan Gines de Sepulveda (Sepulveda) and how he views the Indians as inferior to the Spaniards. The other view is from Bartolome de Las Casas and how he views the Indians as equal to the Spaniards. They are both quick to argue whether or not the Indian people are barbarians, whether or not they can form a government, and if they are…

Bartolomé de las Casas defended the rights of natives and condemned cruelties committed by the Spanish by producing the radical argument that the Native Americans were human. During his time, early modern thinkers largely interpreted their world through the understanding of the Great Chain of Being, but contested the place of natives within that hierarchy. For Las Casas, the ability to reason defined humanity. To fully understand rationality in sixteenth-century Spain, contemporary historians…

The Spanish handled their colonial acquisitions by having slaves and dividing races. Spain was running an encomienda system which meant that the Spanish had the control over native Americans and had the power to tax them or make them slaves. Native Americans labor was needed because it was cheap but more product was made. Another reason why Native American slavery was needed was sugar cane, sugar cane was the cash crop at the time and in order for the sugar to be processed, you have to pull it…

obey, the Spanish would “make slaves of them” (Doc 3). Hundreds of thousands of natives became slaves, working in the mines and fields for the Spanish and as most slaves were not in the best conditions and treated brutally. In document 5, Bartolome de las Casas depicts this cruelty. The Spanish are depicted enforcing their will and using whatever force necessary. Through force, the Spanish were able to exploit the indigenous people and harvest the land’s natural…

Ahmad Young Professor Anna Higgins American Literature 2301; 9:30AM 2 March 2016 Exam One: Subjective Portion The Renaissance Period in Europe was from 1485-1660. During this time period there was a rising group of middle class merchants. This is also during the infamous time when Christopher Columbus discovered the “New World” and started the massive migration to the Americas. This period will go down as one of the biggest culture movements, that this world has seen. During the Renaissance…

The period of 1500-1800 was absolute domination for Europe. The expansion was not based solely on economic considerations. However, the increase in Islam and other religions played a major factor in the European Age of Exploration. The expansion of markets and merchants also played a factor into the expansion. In the beginning of the expansion, the main objective was religion. People set out to spread the word of the Lord. They felt they were to share the word of God and still try to make money.…

Sepulveda argues the war against the Amerindians in the New World is just. Through a discussion between the characters Democrates, representing himself, and Leopold, representing Bartolome de las Casas, he attempts to show why the war is justified. Democrates states just war requires a worthy aim and upright conduct. Las Casas would disagree with the accounts described in Democrates as much of the material in the Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies directly contradicts the material of…

On May 30th, 1498, Columbus left Sanlúcar, Spain with six ships for his third voyage to the New World. He was accompanied by Bartolomé de Las Casas. Columbus first sailed to the Portuguese island of Porto Santo and spent some time in Madeira with the Portuguese captain João Conçalves da Camara. He arrived at Gomera in the Canary Islands on June 19th. Columbus first sailed to the Cape Verde Islands, where he unsuccessfully tried to obtain cattle. He sailed south west from Cape Verde on July 4th…

and de la Casas and the troubles in Northern Ireland. I will also use the Holocaust as a case because even though it may not have been religiously motivated, it is still grounded in the context of religion. These will help to further my view that it is the people who are violent because I will show that there have always been other motivations for the violence behind these cases, such as furthering political power, money and the conquest of new lands. The case of the Caribbean and de Las…