Bartolome de las Casas
He was an activist for the rights of the native people of the Americas. He felt that the colonists treated the natives the way they did due to racism and the fact that they were different.
Yes, he did. He actually told a king of Spain to either let the native americans free or fave eternal damnation.
to replace Indian slaves with African slaves
Bartolome de Las Casas' childhood is unknown.
Bartolome de Las Casas was 92 years old when he died.
He urged better treatment of Native Americans but proposed using African laborers.
Bartolomé de las Casas described native peoples in the Americas as "sheep" who were docile and easily influenced.
Bartolome de Las Casas is a Spanish priest that traveled through New Spain working for reform.
Bartolome de Las Casas explored the Americas. While he eventually explored Venezuela, he mainly explored around the Caribbean. He was on the island of Hispaniola the most because his family had holdings here.
Spaniard.
... 82 when he died
Seville, in Castile.
Yes he is from Spain.
Spain
Bartolome de Las Casas