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New Chronicle and Good Government

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New Chronicle and Good Government combines criticism of colonial rule with proposals for governing. Its imagined royal dialogue must be read with its Christian commitments and mediation in view.

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Guided course · Module 8 · Lesson 46
Who is recognized as fully human?
At Valladolid, Sepúlveda’s justifications for conquest met Las Casas’s replies. Writing later in Peru, Guaman Poma challenges the terms of such debates by asking who may instruct a colonial ruler.