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Bartolomé de las Casas
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Las Casas challenges arguments for conquest by disputing classifications, jurisdiction and the effects of war. His replies carry commitments and limits of their own, which call for careful reading.
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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.