Parenthesis: Bartolome de las Casas’ changing view on slavery
Remedios (1516): the owners should be compensated by “allowing them to hold Negro and white slaves that they can bring from Castille.”
Historias (1526-29), vol. 3 p. 275: “The clérigo Casas soon repented of the advice he had given, judging he had been guilty of carelessness, for as he later saw and ascertained the slavery of the blacks was as unjust as that of the Indians…”
On human rights (Historias v.1:117): “The natural laws and rules and the laws of the rights of peoples are common to all nations, Christian and gentile, and of whatever sect, law, color, and condition they may be, without any difference.”