Book contents
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Seville and Early Modern Spain
- 2 To the Indies
- 3 The Genesis of the Black Legend
- 4 Conversion
- 5 Protector of the Indians
- 6 “Micer” Las Casas at Court Looking for Good Spanish Peasants
- 7 Las Casas the Political Animal
- 8 Catastrophe in Tierra Firme and the “Long Sleep” in Puerto Plata
- 9 Coming Out to Battle
- 10 The New Laws
- 11 Bishop of Chiapas
- 12 The Great Debate
- 13 Court Activist and Historian
- 14 The Final Fights
- Conclusion
- Epilog
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
- References
Epilog
Published online by Cambridge University Press: 05 November 2012
- Frontmatter
- Contents
- Figures
- Introduction
- 1 Seville and Early Modern Spain
- 2 To the Indies
- 3 The Genesis of the Black Legend
- 4 Conversion
- 5 Protector of the Indians
- 6 “Micer” Las Casas at Court Looking for Good Spanish Peasants
- 7 Las Casas the Political Animal
- 8 Catastrophe in Tierra Firme and the “Long Sleep” in Puerto Plata
- 9 Coming Out to Battle
- 10 The New Laws
- 11 Bishop of Chiapas
- 12 The Great Debate
- 13 Court Activist and Historian
- 14 The Final Fights
- Conclusion
- Epilog
- Bibliographical Essay
- Index
- References
Summary
“All Indian peoples have the right to self-determination. . .. Indian peoples have inalienable rights over their traditional lands and resources. All lands and resources which have been usurped, or taken away without the free and knowledgeable consent of Indian peoples, shall be restored to them. . . . All . . . Indian people’s languages shall be respected by nation-states in all dealings between them on the basis of equality and non-discrimination.”
Bartolomé de las Casas is alive and well across the Iberian Atlantic world today. And, as long as man concerns himself with issues of human rights, morality, truth, faith, religion, and the nature of humankind, he will live through the ages. He is in fact remembered not only throughout the world he traveled, but also throughout the Latin American world which he reached by reputation. In Peru there is the renowned Centro de Estudios Regionales Andinos, “Bartolomé de las Casas,” founded in 1974, and devoted to “research to understand, value, and reveal the complex Andean universe. Its activities are rooted in the principle of self-determination for all people of the Andes . . . permitting each person to realize his own destiny.” That is a perfect statement of one of Las Casas’s principles, easily transferred from his times to modern times, and, of course, underscoring the universality of his life’s work.
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- Bartolomé de las CasasA Biography, pp. 468 - 474Publisher: Cambridge University PressPrint publication year: 2012