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a new Crusade, there is the same general savagery marked by rare cases of Christian kindness, such as Las Casas showed.
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Nor did Las Casas shrink from giving details to his readers.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Las Casas cited in and see the discussion in Angel Losada, “The Controversy between Sepúlveda and Las Casas in the Junta of Valladolid,” in Bartolomé de Las Casas in History, ed.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Nor did Las Casas shrink from giving details to his readers.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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At the same time, Las Casas offered a defense of the Inquisition, which suppressed Christian heretics, not outsiders.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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Las Casas cited in and see the discussion in Angel Losada, “The Controversy between Sepúlveda and Las Casas in the Junta of Valladolid,” in Bartolomé de Las Casas in History, ed.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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For Las Casas, Christians can be barbarians if they “manifest fierceness, wildness, savagery, and cruelty.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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“Could anything,” asks Las Casas, “be uglier, more horrible, more inhuman than this?”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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At the same time, Las Casas offered a defense of the Inquisition, which suppressed Christian heretics, not outsiders.
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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For Las Casas, Christians can be barbarians if they “manifest fierceness, wildness, savagery, and cruelty.”
Bloodlust Russell Jacoby 2011
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