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Advantages Of Bartolome De Las Casas

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There were certainly strong challenges to the viewpoint of de las Casas as he took a minority position. Bartolome de las Casas, like other Spaniards of his time had marveled about the discoveries of Columbus seeing beautiful green parrots, masks made of precious stones and sizable samples of fine gold and other items never before seen in Spain (De las Casas B:38). The prospect of sharing such wealth was exciting to many Spaniards. De las Casas believed that the wealth coming at the expense of the Indians was irrelevant to the Spanish settlers and the focus of the Spaniards should be to reap the spoils of the new world (De Las Casas B: 39). The philosophy that the Indians, as humans, had rights was not a popular belief. It had to be very
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