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Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda ()
Annotation: In , a momentous debate over the status of the New World Indians took place at the Spanish court in Valladolid, between Juan Gines Sepulveda, the official historian of the Spanish Crown, and Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican priest. At issue was whether the Indians possessed a soul. Although no final verdict was rendered in the debate, the Spanish court seemed to side with las Casas by demanding that the Indians be treated more humanely. Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda was a Spanish philosopher, theologian, and historian, best known for his defense of Spanish colonization and conquest in the Americas.Nevertheless, abuses persisted. Three years earlier, Sepúlveda defended the Spanish Conquest by condemning the Indians as savages who should serve the Spanish Conquistadors as slaves. An excerpt from his tract, The Second Democrates, follows. | ||
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