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Bartholomew de Las Casas: his life, apostolate, and writings

Francis Augustus MacNutt's 1909 biography of Las Casas, with a translation of the Brief Account.

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  1. Bartholomew de Las Casas: his life, apostolate, and writings, by Francis Augustus MacNutt (1909; text via Project Gutenberg #23466), Project Gutenberg (from the edition published by Arthur H. Clark, Cleveland, 1909), 1909. Scholarship & press
    Convert the Indians first and they will afterwards become Spanish subjects; as against the contention of his adversaries that they must first be conquered, after which their conversion would follow.
    On account of the harm they do to one another, killing men to sacrifice them and some, in order to eat them.
    This little book, as the reader may see from the translation of it given at the close of this volume, is a veritable catalogue of horrors.
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