Approaches to Teaching the Writings of Bartolome de Las Casas

The work of Bartolomé de Las Casas poses a number of challenges in the classroom: students need help seeing the relevance of a sixteenth-century Dominican missionary to their lives, understanding his colonial-imperial context, and negotiating the apparent contradictions among his evangelizing and his varying stances on Indian and black slavery in the New World. The essays gathered in this volume'show teachers how to introduce and engage with Las Casas—one of the first voices to criticize Euro…