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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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The Nullification Crisis of 1932 happened because the Southern was against the protective tariffs introduced to tax all foreign goods by the Northern states. South was basically agricultural and dependent on manufactured products from the North and other countries, so these tariffs were considered bad for their economy. The Southern states decided to cancel the tariffs and form their own Confederate States of America which was opposed to the United States. This event was the principal responsible for the civil war.
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The economy collapsed while the nation was at war