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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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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
Meditaciones Lascasianas para Universitarios Brian Pierce, O.P.
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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).
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Recent Work
Hugh Thomas Rivers of Gold: The Rise of the Spanish Empire
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The appearance of the icon of Las
Casas here
is by permission of St. Gregory Webmasters: Lawrence A. Clayton and
Edward L. Cleary |
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