Bartolomé de las Casas believed both in colonization and in the humanityof the Indians. He...
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Bartolomé de las Casas believed both in colonization and in the humanity
of the Indians. He was torn between the symbolic
and the practical, incapable of reconciling
the two. Instead, he offered a poor
and ambiguous compromise that he would later regret, freedom for the savages,
the Indians, slavery for the barbarians,
the Africans
of the Indians. He was torn between the symbolic
and the practical, incapable of reconciling
the two. Instead, he offered a poor
and ambiguous compromise that he would later regret, freedom for the savages,
the Indians, slavery for the barbarians,
the Africans
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Bartolomé de las Casas
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believed both in colonization
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and in the humanity
of the Indians.
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He was torn between the symbolic
and the practical,
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incapable of reconciling
the two.
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Instead, he offered a poor
and ambiguous compromise
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that he would later regret,
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freedom for the savages,
the Indians,
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slavery for the barbarians,
the Africans.
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Movie Summary
The path to the new world, an unsettling and intricate story of genocides. Conquest, slavery and the fabrication of "Whiteness".
