01:195:140 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Bartolomé De Las Casas, Protestantism, Stereotype

• School: Rutgers University
• Department: Comparative Literature
• Course: 01:195:140
• Professor: Janet Walker

Document Summary

Bartolme de las casas and the spanish conquest of the americas. Original goal of columbus was to reach japan and then china. In the early 1500s spain increasingly invests in expeditions to the new. World in order to convert people to christianity and thereby respond to the. Map is the courtesy of josue rodriguez. Spain and portugal are dividing all this land. Early 1500s protestant movement ( against catholicism ) religious war. Bartolome de las casas (1484 - 1566) First arrives in 1502 to the island of hispaniola to manage his father"s encomienda/estate/plantation and lives there intermittently until 1547. Becomes a lay priest in 1510 and a dominican friar in 1522. Wrote over 2000 folios in his first 50 years of public life. Initially refuses to deny spain"s claim to the new world, despite the repeated injustices, but gives up this position later in life. Strongest supporter of the rights of indigenous peoples.