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All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation between

Hanke, Lewis. All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in 1550 on the Intellectual and Religious Capacity of the American Indians. De

Why this matters here

Hanke's study of the Valladolid debates examines disputes over the treatment and status of Indigenous peoples in Spanish imperial expansion. The chapter cites this historical dispute without implying that it resolved colonial violence.