id	author	title	date	pages	extension	mime	words	sentence	flesch	summary	cache	txt
atpp-1060	Jambrina, Jesús	Radical Courage: Bartolomé de Las Casas and his defense of the American Indians	2011	5	.pdf	application/pdf	3328	104	44	Who was Bartolomé de Las Casas? Las Casas (Seville, 1484 – Madrid, 1566) came to the Americas in 1502 as a regular Spanish conquistador, and in 1514, after a long transformative experience that included becoming a priest, he took the side of the American Indians against most of the economic interests of the encomenderos (land owners). This is the central theme that he explores, and in doing so, allows him to speak out against both the mistreatment of the Indigenous people, and against slavery and all other forms of oppression.6 Las Casas accomplished this by reaching out to other social fields, going beyond his own religious framework in order to articulate what could be called a ‘counter- narrative.	cache/atpp-1060.pdf	txt/atpp-1060.txt