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Mar 2024
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HoP 441 - Lambs to the Slaughter - Debat...

PETER ADAMSON
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Bartholomé De las Casas argues against opponents, like Sepúlveda, who believed that Europeans had a legal and moral right to rule over and exploit the indigenous peoples of the Americas. 
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