HISTORY 21B Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Juan Ginés De Sepúlveda, Valladolid Debate, Encomienda
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First applied to former muslims in spain. Some historians argue enslavement and not simply disease wiped out vast proportions of indigenous people in the americas. Natives forced to do hard labor and subjected to extreme punishment and death if they resisted. Debate over the brutal encomienda system barolome de las casas arguing that indians were fully human and born free, could become christians. Juan gines de sepulveda using aristotle to argue that humans were natural slaves. Las casas that the remedy of the christians is this, that his majesty should think it right to send to each one of the islands 500 or 600 black africans or whatever number that seems appropriate. The first portuguese ships to sail to west africa brought back a few thousands slaves every year to portugal. Beginnings of sugar slavery in canary islands (25,000), sao tome (100,000) 1510 first 250 african slaves from lisbon to americas.
