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Easy Podcast - Fray Bartolomé de las Casas, el apóstol de los indios - Easy Español
Contrary to the brutality -never questioned- of other European nations against native inhabitants of the lands they colonized, Spain went through the excruciating dilema of how to treat the peoples they had conquered.
Abuses were also committed by the Spaniards, of course, but from the early days of the conquest, many questioned the legality of these abuses and even of the conquest itself.
Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish clergyman and scholar who famously chronicled the first decades of colonization in the New World. Appalled by the atrocities committed against native people and his own…
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