Bartolome de Las Casas: Great Prophet of the Americas

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Bartolome de Las Casas was once a Dominican priest–a missionary who fought relentlessly for justice for the Native Americans and even for their status as human beings. He was once fearless in standing as much as the political and ecclesiastical powers of his time, and a tireless chronicler of events. In Bartolome de las Casas: Great Prophet of the Americas, Paul S. Vickery not only brings these aspects of this bizarre man to life–but does so against the background of his own two conversion experiences by which he recognized his own hypocrisy as a seeker of wealth and owner of Indian slaves. The creator richly describes Bartolome’s journey to the New World looking for wealth and prestige–and his outrage upon seeing the cruel remedy of the Native Americans. He soon acquired a reputation as the “Defender of the Indians” as he tirelessly preached, wrote, and lobbied to defend these indigenous people from individuals who sought to exploit and enslave them. More than a cleric, political activist, or simple chronicler of events, Las Casas became the very judgment of right and wrong of Catholic Spain, a nation grappling with the spiritual mandate to save souls and the human desire to accumulate wealth. His quest for social justice is as relevant for us as of late as it was once in his own time.

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