Bartolomé de las Casas

…Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in the Caribbean in 1502 as a young settler who initially participated in the colonial system without unusual qualms.…

…Las Casas, the same priest who preserved Columbus's log, spent much of his long career as the most prominent Spanish critic of the encomienda system, documenting its abuses in works that were published during his lifetime, and that make for extraordinarily uncomfortable reading.…