The Spanish Polemic on Colonisation
Part four: The controversy at Valladolid, 1550-1551
NOTES
The source for what was said at Valladolid is a pamphlet published by Bartolomé de Las Casas in 1552, with title beginning: Aqui se contiene una disputa, o controversia… The text can be found online e.g. at http://digicoll.library.wisc.edu/cgi-bin/IbrAmerTxt/IbrAmerTxt-idx?id=Spa0035 There is a French translation by Nestor Capdevila in Bartolomé de Las Casas: La controverse entre Las Casas et Sepúlveda (Paris 2007). A good deal of information about the dispute and its context is given in Jean Dumont, El amanecer de los derechos del hombre: La controversia de Valladolid (Madrid 2009).
(1) Tratado comprobatorio in Tratados de Fray Bartolomé de Las Casas II, p. 925.
(2) Cited by Capdevila: La controverse entre Las Casas et Sepúlveda, p. 144.
(3) Ibid., pp. 60-61.
(4) Pagden: The Fall of Natural Man, p. 107.
(5) Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa: History of the Incas, p. 5.
(6) Miguel Giménez-Fernández in J. Friede and B. Keen: Bartolomé de Las Casas in History, p. 109.
(7) Dumont: El amanacer, pp. 7-8 and Ch. 4.
(8) Capdevila in La controverse, pp. 137-8.
(9) Ibid and Las Casas: Aqui se contiene una disputa, o controversia.
(10) Giménez-Fernández, op. cit., p. 110.
(11) J. H. Elliott: Imperial Spain, p. 75.
(12) Hanke: All Mankind Is One, p. 67.
(13) Juan Friede in Friede and Keen: Bartolomé de Las Casas in History, p. 197.
(14) Ibid., p. 198.
(15) Manfred Merluzza: Native Americans under the Castilian Crown, p. 235.
(16) Richard L. Kagan: Clio and the Crown, p. 164.
(17) Edmundo O’Gorman: Comentarios a un Nuevo libro sobre el padre Las Casas, p. 167.
(18) J. H. Parry in the English Historical Review 1952, p. 408.
(19) Daniel Castro: Another Face of Empire, p. 185.