Download Examining the Issue of Enslaving Native Americans AudioBook Free
In 1550-51, Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, in the Valladolid Debate, attempted to settle the issue of if Native Americans should have been enslaved, given sanction by the Pope. Both carefully argued their factors, las Casas saying emphatically, through his "Apología", that Local Americans weren't all uncivilized and this only Canaanite tribes could be enslaved. What ensued was a heated, good-versus-evil argument that settled nothing and still allowed the Catholic Church and the Spanish federal to condone and support the continued enslavement of local peoples.
