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1484–1566 · Spanish Dominican friar, historian, and social reformer (1474–1566)
Also known as: Bartolomé de Las Casas, Бартоломе де лас Касас, بارتولومي دي لاس كاساس, 바르톨로메 데 라스 카사스, バルトロメ・デ・ラス・カサス, 巴托洛梅·德拉斯·卡薩斯
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- An account, much abbreviated, of the destruction of the Indies, with related texts (2002)
- Historia de las Indias
- Witness (1992)
- Las Casas on Columbus
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