Bartolomé de Las Casas (1484-1566) was a Spanish Dominican friar and former conquistador who revealed the atrocities of the conquests of New Spain and Peru and who strove to protect the basic rights of indigenous peoples in the Spanish Empire. https://www.worldhistory.org/Bartolome_de_las_Casas/ #History #BartolomedelasCasas #Encomienda #SpanishEmpire