Spanish friar Bartolomé de las Casas, who had come to the New World as a boy with Christopher Columbus, joined the Dominican order and spent the next 30 years working for what cause?

Question

a) the rights of Native Americans
b) the rights of Spanish colonists
Consider This: Las Casas’s expose of colonial abuses, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, won him the support of important people in Europe, including Emperor Charles V. See 4.2: Building Empires.
c) the protection of encomiendas
Consider This: Las Casas’s expose of colonial abuses, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, won him the support of important people in Europe, including Emperor Charles V. See 4.2: Building Empires.
d) the protection of European missionaries
Consider This: Las Casas’s expose of colonial abuses, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies, won him the support of important people in Europe, including Emperor Charles V. See 4.2: Building Empires.

Answer 1

a) the rights of Native Americans