Cultural Readings - Las Casas

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Las Casas
Jay I. Kislak Foundation Bartholomé de Las Casas,
Brevissima relación de la destruycion de las Indias [nine tracts on the Indies].
Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1552-1553.

Las Casas's critique is particularly powerful because Las Casas was not only a master of important traditions of Scholastic philosophy and logic, he was also an acute observer who reported on the situation of the Indians in an immediate, persuasive style.

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Jay I. Kislak Foundation	Bartholomé de Las Casas, Brevissima relación de la destruycion de las Indias [nine tracts on the Indies]. Seville: Sebastian Trugillo, 1552-1553.
Las Casas's critique is particularly powerful because Las Casas was not only a master of important traditions of Scholastic philosophy and logic, he was also an acute observer who reported on the situation of the Indians in an immediate, persuasive style.