Las Casas, Alonso de Sandoval and the defense of black slavery

The aim of this paper is to analyze the contributions made by the Dominican Bartolomé de Las Casas, in the XVI century, and the Jesuit Alonso de Sandoval, in the XVII century, to legitimatize and regularize discourses about the slave trade and black slavery in the Spanish Americas.

Colonization of the Hispanic America; Evangelize of blacks; Black slavery.