Valladolid debate
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The Valladolid debate was the first public debate in European history to discuss the morality, rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers. Held in the Colegio de San Gregorio, in
"Wild Men" depicted on the facade of the Colegio de San Gregorio
Church of San Pablo, adjacent to Colegio de San Gregorio.
Bartolomé de las Casas was the principal defender of the Indians in the Junta of Valladolid
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, supporter of the war "jousts" against the Indigenous people
Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda
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Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda was a Spanish humanist, philosopher, and theologian of the Spanish Renaissance. He is mainly known for his participation in a famous debate with Bartolomé de las Casas in Valla
Valladolid debate
…such customs, deserving the same consideration as the colonizers. Opposing this view were a number of scholars and priests, including humanist scholar Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda, who argued that the human sacrifice of innocents, cannibalism, and other such "crimes against nature" were unacceptable and should be suppressed by…
Liber gestorum Aegidii Albornotii, 1521