Bartolomé de las Casas: A Voice in the Wilderness of the New World

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The discovery (well, sort of discovery) of the New World was one of the most groundbreaking events in world history. The decades that followed however, would be marked by widespread violence and abuse of power as the colonizing Europeans came to settle in a foreign new land.
In the midst of this broken system, there were several voices who were critical of these injustices. They believed that the Church was betraying a fundamental value of Christianity: to love and lay your life down for your neighbor. One of those voices was the Dominican friar known as Bartolomé de las Casas.
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