Thoughts on Bartering Minorites
Thoughts on Bartering Minorities
In todays present age, slavery is very rare, almost dimished, in the world. Back then, however, caused major problems due to opposing perspectives on the idea of treating a minority or culture lesser than you treat your own. Two citizens, high in their society spoke out against this ordeal.
Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians(1552)- In this little passage of his thoughts, de Las Casas literally defends this indians. Now this more than likely caused a bit of a shock to his listeners. Being that he is apart of the race that is getting the indians to do work he doesn't have to do. A priest like him has much trust and many listeners. In the article he states "Next, I call the Spaniards who plunder that unhappy people tortures... For God's sake and man's faith in him, is this the way to impose the yoke of Christ on Christian men? Is this the way to remove wild barbarism from the minds of barbarians? ... The Indians are not barbaric." In that statement, he is basically calling the spaniards out on their actions towards the Indians. Although he does mind them not being of the Christian faith. He states here "They are easy to teach ... and very ready to accept, honor, and observe the Christian religion and correct their sins." De Las Casas contradicts himself here practically saying "Oh, let them do whatever they want as long as they believe in what we believe." Another rebel with almost the same point of view speaks out in the article "A Critique of the Slave Trade by Fray Tomas de Mercado, 1587". (A side note would be even after 35 years, not much has changed, slavery wise.) Mercado states the same thing as de las Casas except Mercado focuses on bartering the Negroes instead of bartering in general. Mercado talks more of the specfics and how selfish all races are unlike de Las Casas attacking a specific race. Merado's feeling are splashed onto the paper. For instance, he states "They embark four and five hundred of them in
In todays present age, slavery is very rare, almost dimished, in the world. Back then, however, caused major problems due to opposing perspectives on the idea of treating a minority or culture lesser than you treat your own. Two citizens, high in their society spoke out against this ordeal.
Bartolome de Las Casas Defends the Indians(1552)- In this little passage of his thoughts, de Las Casas literally defends this indians. Now this more than likely caused a bit of a shock to his listeners. Being that he is apart of the race that is getting the indians to do work he doesn't have to do. A priest like him has much trust and many listeners. In the article he states "Next, I call the Spaniards who plunder that unhappy people tortures... For God's sake and man's faith in him, is this the way to impose the yoke of Christ on Christian men? Is this the way to remove wild barbarism from the minds of barbarians? ... The Indians are not barbaric." In that statement, he is basically calling the spaniards out on their actions towards the Indians. Although he does mind them not being of the Christian faith. He states here "They are easy to teach ... and very ready to accept, honor, and observe the Christian religion and correct their sins." De Las Casas contradicts himself here practically saying "Oh, let them do whatever they want as long as they believe in what we believe." Another rebel with almost the same point of view speaks out in the article "A Critique of the Slave Trade by Fray Tomas de Mercado, 1587". (A side note would be even after 35 years, not much has changed, slavery wise.) Mercado states the same thing as de las Casas except Mercado focuses on bartering the Negroes instead of bartering in general. Mercado talks more of the specfics and how selfish all races are unlike de Las Casas attacking a specific race. Merado's feeling are splashed onto the paper. For instance, he states "They embark four and five hundred of them in