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429. Bartolome de Las Casas

429. Bartolome de Las Casas

History of North America · History of North America

August 8, 202510m 3s

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Dominican friar and Catholic priest Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566), the Bishop of Chiapas, Mexico, tried to end Mexico’s Encomienda system in which those who owned land could also take the people living there in forced labor.

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