:( Bartolomé de las Casas was a Spanish planter and slaveholder on the island of Hispaniola, in what is today
the Dominican Republic. How did de las Casas come to feel about the encomienda system?
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He came to oppose and protest the encomienda system as immoral, writing A Short Account of
the Destruction of the Indies, he would later become a Dominican friar and urge Carlos V to
abolish encomiendas
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He was one of its staunchest defenders, writing a book called A Brief History of the Glories of
Imperial Spain; he would later be made a hidalgo by Carlos V
He opposed it, because it interfered with his business; he had a slave-trading business that
primarily trafficked in African people