Question

How did Bartolomé de las Casas draw distinctions between the Spanish people and the American Indians?

Answer 1

Las Casas’s work finally seemed to be crowned with success when King Charles signed the so-called New Laws (Leyes Nuevas). According to those laws, the encomienda was not to be considered a hereditary grant; instead, the owners had to set free their Indian serfs after the span of a single generation. To ensure enforcement of the laws, Las Casas was named bishop of Chiapas in Guatemala, and in July 1544 he setsail for America, together with 44 Dominicans. Upon his arrival in January 1545, he immediately issued Avisos y reglas para confesores de españoles (“Admonitions and Regulations for the Confessors of Spaniards”), the famous

Answer 2

Explanation:

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• Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in America with the dream of every conqueror, to own lands and indigenous people and thus become rich.

• In principle, that was Bartolomé's goal, to become a rich and powerful man.

However, a sermon preached by Father Montesinos changed the course of his life, when he called a hostile audience a sinner for murdering and abusing indigenous people.

• Suddenly, Bartolomé felt now that he would become the defender of indigenous rights.

• remorse of conscience, and he changed the course of life he led, and the one that previously looked after the interests of Spain,