Rather than human rights, the #LasCasas legacy centers on spreading an elitist European Christianity that has since morphed into the modern White Christian Nationalism impacting the United States today.
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...for replacing indigenous forced labor with African slaves. In 1510, he became the first priest ordained in the New World. SOURCE: Britanica
#LasCasas laid the groundwork for the paternalistic idea that European Christians knew best.
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#WhiteSupremacy bullshit

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1502: Bartolomé de las Casas arrived in Hispaniola (now Haiti & the Dominican Republic)
Context: Las Casas was a Spanish historian & Dominican friar. In his best-known works, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias.
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The SOURCE for this post was the book Gangsters of Capitalism: Smedley Butler, the Marines, and the Making and Breaking of America's Empire by Jonathan M. Katz
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#Cuba

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...Carlos Manuel de Céspedes freed his enslaved workers and launched a revolution against Spain.
The ensuing war raged for 10 yrs 'til Spanish forces successfully exploited racial, class & regional divisions to crush the rebellion.
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...extract the hemisphere's wealth, largely because it controlled the most densely populated regions while lacking direct access to African colonies.
SOURCE: Perspective: The Other Slavery, by Andrés Reséndez for Smithsonian
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#WhiteSupremacy bullshit
#Columbus

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... as African slavery
Facts: Criticism of Columbus's brutality is not a modern "woke" phenomenon. His unspeakable cruelty toward indigenous populations, Spanish colonists & his own crew led to his arrest & imprisonment by the Spanish Crown.
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#Columbus

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