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atrocious calamity for the human race,” yet sometimes it could still be justified. His understanding was that there were many contexts in which war could be justified. Still, the wars of the New World did not fit these contexts Las Casas based many of his ideas on previous historians and philosophers such as
Aristotle, Juan GĂnes de SepĂşlveda, and Gratian. BartolomĂ© de las Casas rejected SepĂşlveda’s view, which supported that of Aristotle’s, of Indians as barbarians, or “natural slaves against whom a just war could be waged”. Las Casas also rejects SepĂşlveda’s claim that a just war could be waged to eradicate the Indians’ barbaric customs and argues that this argument could only be applied to an individual subject to Christian rulers – the Indians were therefore protected as Indians were never viewed in any way as living under the jurisdiction of the Crown.
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216:, Volume II, Book VI, Title V. Other related provisions within the Laws refer to the treatment of the Indian subjects, their conversion to Christianity via evangelization and the good care of their lives, with specific instructions to not oppress them in any way and to regard them as vassals of the Crown. It also required from the prosecutor of the local
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taught in matters of the Holy
Catholic Church. All interactions with the native populations of the Spanish colonies were to be conducted with kind treatment and conversion. The same journal states that the Audiencia was under the orders to give and to be given all the support and aid that Zumárraga should ask of them.
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is probably the first documented attempt of those efforts when the bishops took upon themselves the task of exercising protective actions on the native population. Bartolome de las Casas presented this report to the
Spanish Court in 1516, denouncing the harm and cruelties imposed on native peoples of
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Zumárraga proposed in 1529 to appoint a trusted group of secular officials from different religious orders to be elected as such protectors and intervene in Indian civil and criminal cases. However, the Crown would not yield to the regular clergy full sovereignty over the indigenous population and,
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significantly during his time in Spain. Las Casas was a participant in the
Spanish conquest until his eyes were opened to the horrors of the conquest experienced by the native populations. After witnessing the harsh treatment of native people in Spanish colonies, Las Casas pursued further education
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friars (individuals that make up the
Hieronymite monastic order in Spain), including Bartolome de las Casas, were sent to the Spanish colonies to evaluate the actions and consequences that colonization was having upon the demographic decline of the native population. The Indians faced other effects
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The term
Audiencia is defined by the universal Merriam-Webster dictionary as a high court of justice in a Spanish colony frequently exercising military power as well as judicial and political functions. The Audiencia was established to act as a royal court which assisted Juan de Zumárraga in the
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A scholarly article by
Chauvet (1949) provides an account of the authority granted to Zumárraga as Protector of the Indians. These duties included but were not necessarily limited to exercising solitude when looking after and visiting said Indians, to see that the Indians were well treated, and
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The
Spanish Conquests raised a variety of moral concerns for the government at the time regarding colonization, war, unjust conquests, and religion. Bartolomé de las Casas notoriously contradicts himself in the documentation of his beliefs. Las Casas believed that war was “a pestilence and an
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is due in part to
Bartolomé de las Casas – the first Protector of the American Indians, and Fray Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros, the great Cardinal Regent of Spain. Throughout this era, the King of Spain gained information regarding the treatment of native peoples through
235:, viceroy of New Spain, that laid down the legal basis for the creation of a specific agency dedicated to the defense of the natives in the colonies. The office was to be headed by an attorney general and a consultant to the legal procedures involving natives.
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the colonies. After that, the kings of Spain, or the governors in their name, took it upon themselves to designate and appoint individuals, such as bishops, friars, and civilians, as protectors of the Indians.
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Curiel, José Refugio de la Torre. 2010. Un mecenazgo fronterizo: El protector de indios Juan de Gándara y los ópatas de Opodepe (Sonora) a principios del siglo XIX Revista de Indias, Vol 70, No 248 (2010)
67:. The institution of the Protectors of the Indians rested on the idea that rulers should appoint officials to defend, both within and outside of the courts of justice, individuals who were less favored.
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and Fray Francisco Jimenez de Cisneros. Bartolomé de las Casas was one of the first Europeans to set foot into the new hemisphere. He later dedicated his life to ending the harsh treatment of
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The lack of legislation and official recognition produced many difficulties when trying to define the roles of the Protector of the Indians. It wasn't until the publication of the
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Compilation of the laws, regulations, usages and conditions of Spain and Mexico under which lands were granted and held, missions, presidios and pueblos established and governed
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by providing detailed witness accounts of mistreatment in an attempt to relay their struggles and a voice speaking on their behalf in courts, reporting back to the King of
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lacked the necessary police force to inflict such punishments; orders were given to the required authorities to successfully carry out decisions regarding transgressors.
263:, it disappeared completely from the American colonies after their independence, leaving the indigenous population subject to a completely different legal status.
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in 1542 that there was an official prohibition of the enslavement of native peoples with added provisions for the gradual abolition of the encomienda system.
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the first theorist to lay the grounds for a racial conception in politics was Bartolomé de las Casas. Las Casas contributed to the administration of the
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to watch over the treatment given to the natives by colonial representatives with the obligation to punish any violation of the law and notify the
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in the moral and juridical conceptions of just war, which he then used in an attempt to defend native peoples from such unjust conquests as
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