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Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
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Sepúlveda’s defense of conquest uses classifications of peoples and claims about protective war. Examining the argument shows how much work those classifications have to do.
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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.