Bartolomé de las Casas is famous today for his humanitarian struggle to protect the conquered Indian American subjects of the Spanish crown from slavery and oppression. In his own day, his passionate denunciation of colonialist abuses provided fuel for the "Black Legend", a Protestant propaganda image of Spanish tyranny designed to stir up hatred of Catholicism. This book examines how Las Casas' eye-witness account of post-conflict America arose, and how it was traduced. In particular, it scrutinizes the role of early modern visual culture. Relating the imagery of Las Casas' Brief Relation of the Destruction of the Indies to the Baroque 'theatre of cruelty', the book combines approaches that will be of interest to historians of the conquest of the New World, to students of Baroque culture, and to scholars in the field of post-conflict trauma, atrocity and war crimes.

Spanish Conquest, Protestant Prejudice: Las Casas and the Black Legend, (Monographs in Post-Conflict Cultures)

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Lawrance, Jeremy

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Critical, Cultural and Communications Press

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Spanish Conquest, Protestant Prejudice: Las Casas and the Black Legend, (Monographs in Post-Conflict Cultures)