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This site reflects heightened contemporary interest in Bartolomé de Las Casas. It provides information, research, and analysis of the life and writings of the person who has become a symbol of justice and human rights in Latin America and elsewhere. Sources for the study of his life are provided. Space will be given to discussion of controversies, as well as focus on persons who have exemplified the spirit of Las Casas.
Contemporary icon, featured in The New York Times, by Mark Dukes is at St. Gregory of Nyssa Episcopal Church (see below) |
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New Items on Las CasasIn this biography, Paul Vickery focuses especially
upon Las Casas's "conversion" journey. Drawing upon Las Casas's own
words and actions, Vickery describes the historical setting and specific
events leading up to Las Casas's spiritual awakening and then interprets
this experience in light of his message for us today. Students of
history, Western civilization, and social justice will fi
 L. A. Clayton, "Bartolomé de las Casas and the African Slave Trade," History Compass, online history journal, vol. 7 (Sept. 2009). A revisionist view of Bartolomé de las Casas as the ‘author’ of the introduction of African slaves to the Indies/Americas in the early 16th century. The article details Las Casas’ thinking and actions and concludes that while Las Casas did—among other contemporaries—suggest the importation of African slaves to lift the burden of oppression off the Amerindians, his perspective and view was altered radically in the last third of his life. The article explores the meaning of African slavery in the context of the place and time where Las Casas grew up—Andalucia in southern Spain—where slavery was quite different from the way it developed on the plantations of the Americas. And the article relates how Las Casas’ theoretical and practical defense of Amerindians eventually was extended by Las Casas’ into a defense of liberty for all men, including African slaves.
New center at Oxford University honoring Las Casas.Las Casas Centre for Human Rights at Blackfriars Hall, Oxford University; Director Francis Davis. The Institute aims to examine difficult questions in the spirit of dialogue, mutual respect, and friendship that is central to the Dominican intellectual tradition, enquiry, and disputation. In 2010, the Las Casas Institute will be offering the first service learning scholarships in the University. NEW BOOK: Recent Itallian publication on Las Casas: Controversia tra Las Casas e Sepúlveda, mas Saverio Di Liso. SaveSaverio Di Liso is professor of the History of Philosophy at the School of Theology, Pugliese, Bari, Italy.
Approaches
to Teaching the Writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas
Distinguished Professor Luis Rivera-Pagan Takes Up Las Casas
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The Tradition of Human Rights in Latin America and Its Relation to Bartolomé de Las Casas
Two Harvard University Law-related professors have delineated the key role of Las Casas: Paolo Carozzo, "From Conquest to Constitutions: The Latin American Tradition of Idea Of Human Rights," Human Rights Quarterly 25, 2 (May 2003) "The modern idea of human rights had a period of gestation lasting millennia. But it would be fair to say--even if it is not commonly recognized--that its birth was in the encounter between sixteenth century Spanish Neo-Scholasticism and the New World. If that encounter were embodied in a single person, it would be Bartolomé de Las Casas." (p.289) For whole article, click here Mary Ann Glendon, "The Forgotten Crucible: The Latin American Influence on the Universal Human Rights Idea" For whole article, click here
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Controversias Sobre Bartolomé de Las Casas Una leyenda hábilmente urdida pos los detractores de Las Casas fue que él fue el introductor de la esclavitud en América. Isacio Pérez Fernández intentó desmantelar la leyenda de un Las Casas esclavista en su libro, Bartolomé de Las Casas: ¿Contra los negros? (1991). Por contraste, el autor mostró que Las Casas fue el primero que denunció las esclavización de los afro-americanos, una vez que conoció la realidad de la trata y de unos pueblos con un mundo y una cultura propia.
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Ponencia sobre el Obispo Nicaraguanüense Antonio de Valdivieso, O.P., Contemporaneo de Las Casas Por Clemente Guido Martinéz EL INTERÉS DE LAS CASAS POR LOS INDIGENAS Y LA EVANGELIZACIÓN EN EL BRASIL Actitud creciente de Las Casas en la cutlura y la iglesia brasileñas hoy Carlos Josaphat Oliveira de Pinto, O.P. Ponencia recién presentada |
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The remarkable story of Las Casas is one of the centerpieces of the latest book of "one of the most wide-ranging historians of modern times." (N.Y. Times, 25, 25/vii/04). |
Recent Work
Hugh Thomas Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire |
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“The Unheard Voice of Law from an Often Heard Text: A New Rendition of Bartolomé de las Casas’ Brevísima Relación de la Destruición de las Indias.” by Fr. David Orique, University of Oregon. Friday, 19 September 2008 at 3:30 pm in the Albertson Room (Doré Theater) http://www.csub.edu/history/news.htx
The appearance of the icon of Las
Casas here
is by permission of St. Gregory Webmasters: Lawrence A. Clayton and
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