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A revisionist view of Bartolome de las Casas as the ‘author’ of the introduction of African slaves to the Indies/Americas in the early 16th century. The article details Las Casas’ thinking and actions and concludes that while Las Casas did—among other contemporaries—suggest the importation of African slaves to lift the burden of oppression off the Amerindians, his perspective and view was altered radically in the last third of his life. The article explores the meaning of African slavery in the context of the place and time where Las Casas grew up—Andalucía in southern Spain—where slavery was quite different from the way it developed on the plantations of the Americas. And the article relates how Las Casas’ theoretical and practical defense of Amerindians eventually was extended by Las Casas’ into a defense of liberty for all men, including African slaves.
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Powerful empires were built, Written and spoken languages were made and perfected, and new technology was created
He was the President of the Confederate States of America. He ran the south during the civil war. <span />
Those with the power in democracy are arguable the individuals who are elected in a representative democracy or those that are in the majority in a strict definition of democracy. They keep their power by remaining in the majority position on issues that are important to them or continuing to be elected. And the role of the individual in a strict democracy is not very important because it is the collective that has greater strength than the individual but an individual can still vote to influence democracy.