Por que Fray Bartolome de las Casas fue un personaje tan controvertido?

Question

This is a question out of my Spanish class under "La Epoca colonial". Thank You.

Answer 1

Because of the slaves which he took and whom ultimately he had to free. http://www.artehistoria.com/frames.htm?http://72.14.253.104/search?q=cache:vNhKYC-_oIEJ:www.artehistoria.com/historia/personajes/5682.htm+fray+bartolome+de+la+casas&hl=en&ct=clnk&cd=1&gl=us

Answer 2

De las Casas became well-known for his advocacy of the rights of Indigenous peoples of the Americas, whose cultures he described with care. His descriptions of the caciques (chiefs or princes), bohiques (shamans or clerics), ni-taínos (noblemen), and naborias (common folk) in the Caribbean clearly showed a feudal structure. His book A Brief Account of the Destruction of the Indies ( original title in Spanish: Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias), published in 1552, gave a vivid description of the atrocities committed by the conquistadors in the Americas – most particularly, the Caribbean, Central America, and what is now Mexico – including many events to which he was a witness, as well as some events he reprints from others' eyewitness accounts. In one of his last works before his death, De thesauris in Peru, he vigorously defended the rights of the natives of Peru against the slavery imposed on them by the early Spanish Conquest. The work also questioned the right Spain had to take the treasures derived from the ransom of Atahualpa (the Inca leader), as well as those valuables found and taken from the burial sites of the Indios population.


For more go to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Bartolom%C3%A9_de_Las_Casas

Answer 3

Because he encouraged the slave trade by calling the African people "sub-human."

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