Bartolomé de las Casas and the Defense of Amerin – A Brief History with Documen…

Bartolom De Las Casas and the Defense of Amerindian RightsA Brief History with Documents\nAuthor(s): Lawrence A. Clayton, David M. Lantigua\nFormat: Paperback\nPublisher: The University of Alabama Press, United States\nImprint: The University of Alabama Press\nISBN-13: 9780817359690, 978-0817359690\nSynopsis\nAn accessible reader of both popular and largely unavailable writings of Bartolom de las Casas.\n With the exception of Christopher Columbus, Bartolom de las Casas is arguably the most notable figure of the Encounter Age. He is remembered principally as the author of the Black Legend, as well as the protector of American Indians. He was one of the pioneers of the human rights movement, and a Christian activist who invoked law and Biblical scripture to challenge European colonialism in the great age of the Encounter. He was also one of the first and most thorough chroniclers of the conquest, and a biographer who saved the diary of Columbus's first voyage for posterity by transcri.