HISTORY 2CS3 Chapter Notes - Chapter 3: Random Seed, Portuguese Discoveries, Slavery In Africa
12 Sep 2018
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Bartolom de las casas, las casas berating the spaniards, history of the indies. Andr e collard, ed. and trans. (new york: harper and row torchbook library, 1971), The demographic catastrophe that beset the new world started in cuba with the arrival of. The population of the island declined dramatically within two decades of spanish settlement, falling from several million to 29,000. Bartolome de las casas was aware of the tragedy, and began his tenure in the new world as part of the problem, participating in the conquest of cuba. He was granted an encomienda by the spanish governor of the island, which gave him jurisdiction over a group of indians who were to supply the colonists with tribute and labour (a brutal form of slavery) Las casas repented and in 1514 gave up his encomienda to become a dominican friar. He raised an angry voice against the encomienda, which he thought destroyed the humanity of the.
