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Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Las Casas, Bartolome de 1474-1566 (search)
Las Casas, Bartolome de 1474-1566 Missionary; born in Seville, Spain, in 1474. His father was a companion of Columbus in his two earlier voyages, and in the seeond one he took this son, then a there ordained a priest, in 1510, and gave the name to the island in compliment to his order. Las Casas was chaplain to Velasquez when the latter conquered Cuba, and did much to alleviate the sufferthree monks to correct abuses. Their services were not satisfactory, and, returning to Spain, Las Casas was appointed Universal Protector of the Indies. Seeing the few negroes who were in Santo Domis benevolent proposition gave rise to a lucrative traffic, and a perversion of the purpose of Las Casas, and he obtained from Charles V. a grant of a large domain on the coast of Venezuela, for the r of the Spanish Court undertook to justify the conduct of the Spaniards towards the natives. Las Casas, in selfdefence, wrote a work upon the natives, which contained many particulars of the cruelt
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), Slavery. (search)
oduced by the Spaniards into the West Indies. They first enslaved the natives, but these were unequal to the required toil, and they were soon almost extinguished by hard labor and cruelty. Charles V. of Spain granted a license to a Fleming to import 4,000 negroes annually into the West Indies. He sold his license to Genoese merchants, who began a regular trade in human beings between Africa and the West Indies. These were found to thrive where the native laborers died. The benevolent Las Casas (see Las Casas, Bartolome De) and others favored the system as a means for saving the Indian tribes from destruction; and the trade was going on briskly when the English, under the influence of Hawkins, engaged in it in 1562. Ten years before a few negroes had been sold in England, and it is said that Queen Elizabeth's scruples were so far removed that she shared in the profits of the traffic carried on by Englishmen. The Stuart kings of England chartered companies for the trade; and Char
Harper's Encyclopedia of United States History (ed. Benson Lossing), United States of America. (search)
ed with honor at Court and the charges dismissed without inquiry......Dec. 17, 1500 The first map to show America is Las Casas's......1500 Columbus sails on his fourth and last voyage with four caravels and 150 men from Cadiz......May 9, 1502 in 1527 from silver plate possessed by natives.] Spaniards at Darien hear of the empire of the Incas......1512-17 Las Casas made Universal Protector of the Indians ......1516 Francisco Fernandez de Cordova discovers Mexico......1517 Vascivia invades and conquers Chile......1541 Cortez returns to Spain, 1540; and dies there, aged sixty-two......1547 Las Casas returns to Spain......1547 Davis discovers the strait that bears his name......1585 Falkland Islands discovered b of his time. Discovers the river La Plata, South America,......January, 1516 [Killed by Indians on that river.] Las Casas, Bartholomew, born in Seville, Spain, in 1474; died in Spain, July, 1566. Accompanies Columbus to America, 1493, and d