The repartimiento or distribution was made according to the rank and
importance of the Christian to whom the Indians were allocated, one
of them being given thirty, another forty, still another, one or two
hundred, and besides the rank of the Christian there was also to be
considered in what favor he stood with the tyrant they called
Governor. Bartolomé de Las Casas (* 1484 oder 1485 in Sevilla; † 18. And
since men and women were separated, there could be no marital
relations. Bartolomé de Las Casas, a Spanish Dominican priest, wrote directly to the King of Spain hoping for new laws to prevent the brutal exploitation of Native Americans. There are other Islands Thirty in number, and upward bordering upon the Isle of St. John, totally unpeopled; all which are above Two Thousand miles in length, and yet remain without Inhabitants, Native, or People. They
took up arms, but their weapons were very weak and of little service
in offense and still less in defense. And the men died in the mines and the women died on the
ranches from the same causes, exhaustion and hunger. Then they behaved with such temerity and
shamelessness that the most powerful ruler of the islands had to see
his own wife raped by a Christian officer. All the people were slain or died after being taken
into captivity and brought to the Island of Hispaniola to be sold as
slaves. A biography, or rather panegyric, of Las Casas has been weritten by QUINTANA in Vidas de Españoles célebres (Madrid, 1807). AUTORES CONSULTADOS. (1542). El presente documento ha sido producido en el marco de la experiencia educativa del Proyecto “Amautas y Qullanas”, implementado por el Programa “Colegio Andino” del Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos Bartolomé de Las Casas, entre octubre de 2005 y diciembre de 2009. A witness to the terrible destruction of the indigenous peoples of the newly discovered Americas, he became a thorn in the side of the complacent, passionately advocating for human dignity and courageously speaking out against injustice. For centuries, Las Casas's birthdate was believed to be 1474; however, in the 1970s, scholars conducting archival work demonstrated this to be an error, after uncovering in the Archivo General de Indiasrecords of a contemporary lawsuit that demonstrated he was born a decade later than had been supposed. They have the
healthiest lands in the world, where lived more than five hundred
thousand souls; they are now deserted, inhabited by not a single
living creature. They
attacked the towns and spared neither the children nor the aged nor
pregnant women nor women in childbed, not only stabbing them and
dismembering them but cutting them to pieces as if dealing with sheep
in the slaughter house. They are also poor people, for they not only possess
little but have no desire to possess worldly goods. And I say this from my own knowledge of the acts I
witnessed. Wagner, Henry Raup with Helen Parish. The least felicitous of them were more fertile and
beautiful than the gardens of the King of Seville. Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas est le fils d'un des compagnons de voyage de Christophe Colomb. For this reason
they are not arrogant, embittered, or greedy. Christophe Colomb n'a jamais foulé la terre du Mexique et ce n'est qu'en février 1519 (27 ans après la découverte!) The Indies were discovered in the year one thousand four hundred and
ninety-two. Their reason for killing and
destroying such an infinite number of souls is that the Christians
have an ultimate aim, which is to acquire gold, and to swell
themselves with riches in a very brief time and thus rise to a high
estate disproportionate to their merits. -Impresos: Remesal, Historia de la provincia de Chiapa. The Pelican History of the Church #6. He became an influential figure at court and at the Council of the Indies. And
all the land so far discovered is a beehive of people; it is as
though God had crowded into these lands the great majority of
mankind. They are very clean in their
persons, with alert, intelligent minds, docile and open to doctrine,
very apt to receive our holy Catholic faith, to be endowed with
virtuous customs, and to behave in a godly fashion. The Lucayan Islands on the North Side, adjacent to Hispaniola and Cuba, which are Sixty in number, or thereabout, together with those, vulgarly known by the name of the Gigantic Isles, and others, the most infertile whereof, exceeds the Royal Garden of Seville in fruitfulness, a most Healthful and pleasant Climate, is now laid waste and uninhabited; and whereas, when the Spaniards first arrived here, about Five Hundred Thousand Men dwelt in it, they are now cut off, some by slaughter, and others ravished away by Force and Violence, to work in the Mines of Hispaniola, which was destitute of Native Inhabitants: For a certain Vessel, sailing to this Isle, to the end, that the Harvest being over (some good Christian, moved with Piety and Pity, undertook this dangerous Voyage, to convert Souls to Christianity) the remaining gleanings might be gathered up, there were only found Eleven Persons, which I saw with my own Eyes. With still others,
all those they wanted to capture alive, they cut off their hands and
hung them round the victim's neck, saying, "Go now, carry the
message," meaning, Take the news to the Indians who have fled to the
mountains. que Cortès et son armada touche le sol du Yucatán... Bartolomé de Las Casas se sent naturellement appelé par ces nouvelles terres. The sons of nobles among us, brought up
in the enjoyments of life's refinements, are no more delicate than
are these Indians, even those among them who are of the lowest rank
of laborers. And the Christians attacked them
with buffets and beatings, until finally they laid hands on the
nobles of the villages. In 1502 he left for Hispaniola, the island that today contains the states of Dominican Republic and Haiti. brevísima relación de la destrucción de las indias. His father, Pedro de las Casas, a merchant, descend… We
can estimate very surely and truthfully that in the forty years that
have passed, with the infernal actions of the Christians, there have
been unjustly slain more than twelve million men, women, and
children. Après les expéditions de rec… Bartolomé de las Casas was one of the first major fighters for human rights in the New World. The island of Cuba is nearly as
long as the distance between Valladolid and Rome; it is now almost
completely depopulated. And this also is as really true that the _Spaniards_ never received any injury from the Indians, but that they rather reverenced them as Persons descended from Heaven, until that they were compelled to take up Arms, provoked thereunto by repeated Injuries, violent Torments, and unjust Butcheries. It speaks eloquently to faithfulness, a quality which Las Casas demonstrated his entire life to the cause of justice and truth as he saw it. Bartoleme de Las Casas,
Brief Account of the
Devastation of the Indies. For in the
beginning the Indians regarded the Spaniards as angels from Heaven. Around it in all directions are many other islands,
some very big, others very small, and all of them were, as we saw
with our own eyes, densely populated with native peoples called
Indians. There must be close to two hundred leagues of
land on this island, and the seacoast has been explored for more than
ten thousand leagues, and each day more of it is being explored. Their repasts are such
that the food of the holy fathers in the desert can scarcely be more
parsimonious, scanty, and poor. David Orique, O.P., Kislak Fellow, at 12:00 in LJ-119. Nay the Isle of Cuba, which extends as far, as Valladolid in Spain is distant from Rome, lies now uncultivated, like a Desert, and entombed in its own Ruins. And the care they took was to
send the men to the mines to dig for gold, which is intolerable
labor, and to send the women into the fields of the big ranches to
hoe and till the land, work suitable for strong men. DuBois on Black Progress (1895, 1903), Jane Addams, “The Subjective Necessity for Social Settlements” (1892), Eugene Debs, “How I Became a Socialist” (April, 1902), Walter Rauschenbusch, Christianity and the Social Crisis (1907), Alice Stone Blackwell, Answering Objections to Women’s Suffrage (1917), Theodore Roosevelt on “The New Nationalism” (1910), Woodrow Wilson Requests War (April 2, 1917), Emma Goldman on Patriotism (July 9, 1917), W.E.B DuBois, “Returning Soldiers” (May, 1919), Lutiant Van Wert describes the 1918 Flu Pandemic (1918), Manuel Quezon calls for Filipino Independence (1919), Warren G. Harding and the “Return to Normalcy” (1920), Crystal Eastman, “Now We Can Begin” (1920), Marcus Garvey, Explanation of the Objects of the Universal Negro Improvement Association (1921), Hiram Evans on the “The Klan’s Fight for Americanism” (1926), Herbert Hoover, “Principles and Ideals of the United States Government” (1928), Ellen Welles Page, “A Flapper’s Appeal to Parents” (1922), Huey P. Long, “Every Man a King” and “Share our Wealth” (1934), Franklin Roosevelt’s Re-Nomination Acceptance Speech (1936), Second Inaugural Address of Franklin D. Roosevelt (1937), Lester Hunter, “I’d Rather Not Be on Relief” (1938), Bertha McCall on America’s “Moving People” (1940), Dorothy West, “Amateur Night in Harlem” (1938), Charles A. Lindbergh, “America First” (1941), A Phillip Randolph and Franklin Roosevelt on Racial Discrimination in the Defense Industry (1941), Aiko Herzig-Yoshinaga on Japanese Internment (1942/1994), Harry Truman Announcing the Atomic Bombing of Hiroshima (1945), Declaration of Independence of the Democratic Republic of Vietnam (1945), Dwight D. Eisenhower, “Atoms for Peace” (1953), Senator Margaret Chase Smith’s “Declaration of Conscience” (1950), Lillian Hellman Refuses to Name Names (1952), Paul Robeson’s Appearance Before the House Un-American Activities Committee (1956), Brown v. Board of Education of Topeka (1954), Richard Nixon on the American Standard of Living (1959), John F. Kennedy on the Separation of Church and State (1960), Congressman Arthur L. Miller Gives “the Putrid Facts” About Homosexuality” (1950), Rosa Parks on Life in Montgomery, Alabama (1956-1958), Barry Goldwater, Republican Nomination Acceptance Speech (1964), Lyndon Johnson on Voting Rights and the American Promise (1965), Lyndon Johnson, Howard University Commencement Address (1965), National Organization for Women, “Statement of Purpose” (1966), George M. Garcia, Vietnam Veteran, Oral Interview (1969/2012), Fannie Lou Hamer: Testimony at the Democratic National Convention 1964, Report of the National Advisory Commission on Civil Disorders (1968), Statement by John Kerry of Vietnam Veterans Against the War (1971), Barbara Jordan, 1976 Democratic National Convention Keynote Address (1976), Jimmy Carter, “Crisis of Confidence” (1979), Gloria Steinem on Equal Rights for Women (1970), First Inaugural Address of Ronald Reagan (1981), Jerry Falwell on the “Homosexual Revolution” (1981), Statements from The Parents Music Resource Center (1985), Phyllis Schlafly on Women’s Responsibility for Sexual Harassment (1981), Jesse Jackson on the Rainbow Coalition (1984), Bill Clinton on Free Trade and Financial Deregulation (1993-2000), The 9/11 Commission Report, “Reflecting On A Generational Challenge” (2004), George W. Bush on the Post-9/11 World (2002), Pedro Lopez on His Mother’s Deportation (2008/2015), Chelsea Manning Petitions for a Pardon (2013), Emily Doe (Chanel Miller), Victim Impact Statement (2015). And also, those lands
are so rich and felicitous, the native peoples so meek and patient,
so easy to subject, that our Spaniards have no more consideration for
them than beasts. Estampilla de 1992 en conmemoración de la vida y trabajo de Bartolomé de las Casas, un fraile dominicano que denunció los abusos de los españoles contra los pueblos indígenas del Caribe. In the following year a great many Spaniards went there with the intention of settling the land. Bartolomé de Las Casas was born around 1484 in Seville, Spain. Bartolomé de las Casas is one of the most powerfully prophetic figures in the history of the Catholic Church. They usually dealt with the chieftains and nobles in the
following way: they made a grid of rods which they placed on forked
sticks, then lashed the victims to the grid and lighted a smoldering
fire underneath, so that little by little, as those captives screamed
in despair and torment, their souls would leave them.... After the wars and the killings
had ended, when usually there survived only some boys, some women,
and children, these survivors were distributed among the Christians
to be slaves. In 1514, he gave up his encomienda in response to his growing concerns about the treatment of Indians in Spanish America. Yet into this sheepfold, into
this land of meek outcasts there came some Spaniards who immediately
behaved like ravening wild beasts, wolves, tigers, or lions that had
been starved for many days. On the northern side of Cuba and Hispaniola
he the neighboring Lucayos comprising more than sixty islands
including those called Gigantes, beside numerous other islands, some
small some large. This year marks the 500-year anniversary of the pricking of one man's conscience. El 19 de septiembre de … As to the firm land, we are certainly satisfied, and assured, that the Spaniards by their barbarous and execrable Actions have absolutely depopulated Ten Kingdoms, of greater extent than all Spain, together with the Kingdoms of Aragon and Portugal, that is to say, above One Thousand Miles, which now lye waste and desolate, and are absolutely ruined, when as formerly no other Country whatsoever was more populous. This large island was perhaps the most densely populated
place in the world. The milk in the breasts of the women with
infants dried up and thus in a short while the infants perished. past forty years, down to the present time, for they
are still acting like ravening beasts, killing, terrorizing,
afflicting, torturing, and destroying the native peoples, doing all
this with the strangest and most varied new methods of cruelty, never
seen or heard of before, and to such a degree that this Island of
Hispaniola once so populous (having a population that I estimated to
be more than three million), has now a population of barely two
hundred persons. And they committed other acts of force and violence
and oppression which made the Indians realize that these men had not
come from Heaven. On these islands I
estimate there are 2,100 leagues of land that have been ruined and
depopulated, empty of people. It was a natural fit, especially as the Indians were dying off in disastrous numbers But I should not say "than beasts" for, thanks be to God,
they have treated beasts with some respect; I should say instead like
excrement on the public squares. 1. one of first to write about discovery and conquer of americas 2. wrote about injustices/human rights violations against indians. The common ways mainly employed
by the Spaniards who call themselves Christian and who have gone
there to extirpate those pitiful nations and wipe them off the earth
is by unjustly waging cruel and bloody wars. Sevilla, c.1484 – Madrid, 18.VIII.1565. Bartolomé de Las Casas - Bartolomé de Las Casas - Adviser to Charles V: Las Casas then entered upon the most fruitful period of his life. Le 2 octobre 2002, son procès en béatification a été ouvert par l'Église catholique. With these infernal methods of tyranny they debase and
weaken countless numbers of those pitiful Indian nations. Subsequent biographers and authors have generally accepted and reflected this revision. 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robbing, torturing, did the Indians ever rise up against
them.... On the Island Hispaniola was
where the Spaniards first landed, as I have said. The natives are capable of Morality or Goodness and very apt to receive the principles of Catholic Religion; nor are they averse to Civility and good Manners…, I myself have heard the Spaniards themselves (who dare not assume the Confidence to deny the good Nature in them) declare, that there was nothing wanting in them for the acquisition of eternal grace, but the sole Knowledge and Understanding of the Deity…. They laid bets as to who, with one stroke of
the sword, could split a man in two or could cut off his head or
spill out his entrails with a single stroke of the pike. Juli 1566 bei Madrid) war ein spanischer Theologe, Dominikaner und Schriftsteller sowie der erste Bischof von Chiapas im heutigen Mexiko. Bartholomew de las Casas; his life, his apostolate, and his writings. Putnam, 1909. Bartolomé de Las Casas was born in 1484 in Sevilla, Spain. Bartolomé de las Casas (Sevilla, 24 augustus 1484 – Madrid, 17 juli 1566) was een Spaans priester van de orde der dominicanen, de eerste die werd uitgezonden naar de Nieuwe Wereld en de eerste bisschop van Chiapas.In tegenstelling tot veel van zijn collega's en tijdgenoten nam hij het op voor de inheemse bewoners van het pas door Christoffel Columbus ontdekte land. It should be kept in mind
that their insatiable greed and ambition, the greatest ever seen in
the world, is the cause of their villainies. Bartolomé de las Casas , est un prêtre dominicain, missionnaire, écrivain et historien espagnol, célèbre pour avoir dénoncé les pratiques des colons espagnols et avoir défendu les droits des Amérindiens. The Life and Writings of Bartolomé de las Casas. His father was a merchant and was acquainted with the Italian explorer Christopher Columbus.Young Bartolomé, then about 9 years old, was in Seville when Columbus returned from his first voyage in 1493; he might have met members of the Taíno tribe who Columbus enslaved and brought back with him from the Americas. Those that arrived at these Islands from the remotest parts of Spain, and who pride themselves in the Name of Christians, steered Two courses principally, in order to the Extirpation, and Exterminating of this People from the face of the Earth. And once they
begin to hear the tidings of the Faith, they are so insistent on
knowing more and on taking the sacraments of the Church and on
observing the divine cult that, truly, the missionaries who are here
need to be endowed by God with great patience in order to cope with
such eagerness. And some of the Indians concealed their foods while
others concealed their wives and children and still others fled to
the mountains to avoid the terrible transactions of the
Christians. A History of Christian Missions. This was the first land in the New World to be
destroyed and depopulated by the Christians, and here they began
their subjection of the women and children, taking them away from the
Indians to use them and ill use them, eating the food they provided
with their sweat and toil. From that time onward the Indians
began to seek ways to throw the Christians out of their lands. And Spaniards have behaved in no other
way during tla! Neill, Stephen. Nor to either
the men or the women did they give any food except herbs and legumes,
things of little substance. They
are by nature the most humble, patient, and peaceable, holding no
grudges, free from embroilments, neither excitable nor quarrelsome. There is no more fitting epigraph to the life of Bartolomé de las Casas. Herrera, Décadas. From 1520 to 1522, Las Casas tried unsuccessfully to establish new settlements where white farmers would live in complete equality with the natives. Other infants they put to the sword along with their mothers
and anyone else who happened to be nearby. Thus, forty-nine years have
passed since the first settlers penetrated the land,
the first so claimed being the large and most
happy isle called Hispaniola, which is six hundred leagues in
circumference. Nicolás Antonio. Bartolomé de las Casas was born in Sevilla Spain in 1484 to a farming and merchant family – a background that proved valuable in his understanding and critique of the effects of the conquest. Casas, Bartolomé de las. And thus was
depopulated that island which had been densely populated. San Juan [Puerto Rico] and Jamaica are two of
the largest, most productive and attractive islands; both are now
deserted and devastated. As for the vast mainland, which
is ten times larger than all Spain, even including Aragon and
Portugal, containing more land than the distance between Seville and
Jerusalem, or more than two thousand leagues, we are sure that our
Spaniards, with their cruel and abominable acts, have devastated the
land and exterminated the rational people who fully inhabited it. This is a wellknown and proven fact which even the tyrant Governors,
themselves killers, know and admit. In the following year a great many Spaniards went there
with the intention of settling the land. The Spaniards first assaulted the innocent Sheep, so qualified by the Almighty, like most cruel tigers, wolves, and lions, hunger-starved, studying nothing, for the space of Forty Years, after their first landing, but the Massacre of these Wretches, whom they have so inhumanely and barbarously butchered and harassed with several kinds of Torments, never before known, or heard (of which you shall have some account in the following Discourse) that of Three Millions of Persons, which lived in Hispaniola itself, there is at present but the inconsiderable remnant of scarce Three Hundred. 1528 Bartolome´ de las Casas and the African Slave Trade ª 2009 The Author History Compass 7/6 (2009): 1526–1541, 10.1111/j.1478-0542.2009.00639.x Journal Compilation ª 2009 Blackwell Publishing Ltd. century. 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