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The Spanish Polemic on Colonisation
Part four: The controversy at Valladolid, 1550-1551
Las Casas on the background to the controversy
Opening Statements by the Protagonists
Sepúlveda’s Objections: barbarism of the Indians
Las Casas on the humanity of the Indians
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