...people born in one quarter of the globe, labored to enslave the inhabitants of another region, and, in his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, pronounced...be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier on the Africans." — Robertson's History of America, Vol. I. Part III. But the circumstance connected...

...incapable of making this distinction. In the warmth of his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, he pronounced it to be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier on the Africans." | This distribution of praise and censure is not perfectly correct. Las Casas had...

...incapable of making this distinction. In the warmth of his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, he pronounced it to be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier on the Africans."* This distribution of praise and censure is not perfectly correct. Las Casas had...

...While he contended earnestly for the liberty of the people born in one quarter of the globe, he labored to enslave the inhabitants of another region; and...expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted. Charles granted a patent to one of his...

...natural to men who hurry with headlong impetuosity towards a favourite point, was incapable of making the distinction. While he contended earnestly for the...be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier on the African. Language could hardly more completely travesty the facts, for Las Casas neither "laboured...

...to another." Robinson in his History of America says, referring to Las Casas : "While he contended for the liberty of the people born in one quarter...expedient to impose one, still heavier, upon the Africans. Las Casas in his Historia de las Indias admits that he was wrong. To Sir John Hawkins goes the doubtful...

..." Cardinal Ximenes, however, when solicited to encourage this commerce, peremptorily rejected this proposition, because he perceived the iniquity of...expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, Las Casas's plan was adopted."* This accusation has been loudly re-echoed...

...viil cap. 9. s Idem, 4. i. lib. Is. cap. 5, warmth of his zeal to save the Americans from the yoke, he pronounced it to be lawful and expedient to impose one still heavier on the Africans,"1 This distribution of praise and censure is not perfectly correct. Las Casas had...

...order that they might be employed as slaves in working the mines and cultivating the ground. . . . While he contended earnestly for the liberty of the...and expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans."17 If this attribution to Las Casas of the introduction of African slavery to the Spanish...

...point, was incapable of making this distinction. "VVhilu he contended earnestly for the liberty of people born in one quarter of the globe, he laboured...expedient to impose one still heavier upon the Africans. Unfortunately for the latter, las Casas' plan was adopted. Charles granted a patent to one of his Flemish...