The traveling Dominican clergyman and writer Bartolomé de las Casas estimated that the neo-Taino population of Cuba had reached 350, 000 by the end of the 15th century.

Clergyman Bartolomé de Las Casas observed a number of massacres initiated by the invaders as the Spanish swept over the island, notably the massacre near Camagüey of the inhabitants of Caonao.

Bartolomé de Las Casas ( c1484-1566 )

Bartolomé de Las Casas, as a settler in the New World, was galvanized by witnessing the brutal torture and genocide of the Native Americans by the Spanish colonists.

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Bartolomé de las Casas, pacified the Kekchí in Alta Verapaz without violence.

In Spain in 1542 Bartolomé de Las Casas argued against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in the famous Valladolid debate, Sepúlveda mainted an Aristotelian view of humanity as divided into classes of different worth, while Las Casas argued in favor of equal rights to freedom of slavery for all humans regardless of race or religion.

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Bartolomé de Las Casas a 16th-century Dominican friar and Spanish historian participated in campaigns in Cuba ( at Bayamo and Camagüey ) and was present at the massacre of Hatuey ; his observation of that massacre led him to fight for a social movement away from the use of natives as slaves and towards the importation of African Blacks as slaves.

A prominent critic of slavery in the Spanish New World colonies was Bartolomé de las Casas, who opposed the enslavement of Native Americans, and later also of Africans in America.

* July 17 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish priest ( b. 1484 )

* Charles V, Holy Roman Emperor abolishes the worst abuses of the encomienda system by pressure of Bartolomé de las Casas.

* August 11 – Bartolomé de Escobedo, Spanish composer ( b. 1500 )

* Spain's Bartolomé de Las Casas publishes his attack on colonial practices in the New World, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies.

* Bartolomé de las Casas urges Charles V to end Amerindian slavery and recommends the importation of blacks from Africa.

Although European colonists, beginning with the Spanish, initially enslaved natives, the Dominican priest Bartolomé de las Casas helped convince the Spanish government to enact the first European law abolishing colonial slavery in 1542 ; Spain weakened these laws by 1545.

* August 24 – Bartolomé de Las Casas, Spanish bishop in Mexico ( d. 1566 )

The Spanish priest Bartolomé de las Casas, who witnessed it, may have been the first to idealize the simple life of the indigenous Americans.

Later, the Valladolid controversy opposed the Dominican priest Bartolomé de Las Casas to another Dominican philosopher Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, the first one arguing that Native Americans were beings doted with souls, as all other human beings, while the latter argued to the contrary and justified their enslavement.

Although population estimates vary, Father Bartolomé de las Casas, the “ Defender of the Indians ” estimated there were 6 million ( 6, 000, 000 ) Taíno and Arawak in the Caribbean at the time of Columbus's arrival in 1492.

A modern light rail line between the Bartolomé Mitre suburban railway station and Tigre ( Tren de la Costa ) inaugurated in 1996 operates in the northern suburbs.

In 1550, Charles convened a conference at Valladolid in order to consider the morality of the force used against the indigenous populations of the New World, which included figures such as Bartolomé de las Casas.

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* 1513-In Cuba, Bartolomé de las Casas is ordained ( possibly the first ordination in the New World ).

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The early criticism of Spanish behaviour in the New World, contained in the writings of Bartolomé de las Casas, particularly his " Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ", was later eagerly reproduced by groups and nations who opposed the Spanish Empire such as the Protestant Walloons, the French Huguenots, and specially the rising powers of England and the Netherlands.

In 1552, the Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas published his famous Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias ( A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies ), an account of the abuses that accompanied the colonization of New Spain, and especially the island of Hispaniola ( now home to the Dominican Republic and Haiti ).

“ de las Casas ” was added in 1848 in honor of Bartolomé de las Casas.

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* Bartolomé de Las Casas-Historia general de las Indias

In 1536, Dominican friar Bartolomé de las Casas went to Oaxaca to participate in a series of discussions and debates among the Bishops of the Dominican and Franciscan orders.

The Popol Vuh confirms the observations of Bartolomé de las Casas and the Título de Totonicapan, which record that four lords ruled the K ' iche ' at the time of the Spanish conquest.

The priest of Hispaniola and former encomendero, Bartolomé de las Casas underwent a profound conversion after seeing the abuse of the native people.

Bartolomé de Las Casas later attributed the following speech to Hatuey.

As the Taíno did not possess a written language, the name is the phonetic spelling as recorded by the Spanish missionaries, Ramón Pané, and Bartolomé de las Casas.

Pedro de Valdivia gave order to Captain Francisco de Aguirre to found the city later the same year on 26 August to under the name of San Bartolomé de La Serena ( now patron saint of the city ), in the same place where today the Plaza de Armas stands.

A number of places share the name San Bartolomé ( the Spanish-language name of Saint Bartholomew ):

In his Relación de las cosas de Yucatán (" Relation of the Things of Yucatán "), Fray Diego de Landa writes that Hernández de Córdoba went ... " to gather slaves for the mines, now that in Cuba the population is getting smaller ", although a while later he adds, " Others say that he left to discover land and that he brought Alaminos as a pilot ..." Bartolomé de Las Casas also says that even if the original intent was to kidnap and enslave Indians, at some point the objective was broadened to one of discovery, which justifies Alaminos.

Cusco: Centro de Estudios Rurales Andinos " Bartolomé de las Casas ", 1983.

San Martín's report mentions him as " the grenadier Juan B. Cabral ", and historians like Bartolomé Mitre, Herminio Gaitán, Gerardo Bra or Norberto Galasso support the idea.

Bartolomé Mitre was the first president of the unified country, when Buenos Aires rejoined the Confederation.

López next intended to send troops to Uruguay to support the government of his ally, yet when he requested from Argentina permission to cross Argentine soil, Argentine President Bartolomé Mitre refused to allow this force to cross the intervening province of Corrientes.

Bartolomé de las Casas lamented that when found, such books were destroyed: " These books were seen by our clergy, and even I saw part of those that were burned by the monks, apparently because they thought might harm the Indians in matters concerning religion, since at that time they were at the beginning of their conversion.

A greater distribution resulted from the large quantity brought over by the Jesuit Bartolomé Tafur, who, like Cobo, came to Spain in 1643 while procurator of the Peruvian province of his order, proceeded through France ( there is an alleged cure of the young Louis XIV, when still dauphin, effected by Father Tafur by means of Peruvian bark ), and thence to Italy as far as Rome.