Queen Isabella's Will
1504
On her deathbed Queen Isabella of Castile dictated a will instructing her successors to treat the native peoples of the Indies justly and not to harm them. The instruction, honored almost entirely in the breach, would later be cited by reformers like Las Casas arguing for indigenous rights before the Crown.
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Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.