Valladolid Debate Begins
August 15, 1550
Before a panel of Spanish theologians, Bartolome de las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda argued over whether the conquered peoples of the Americas were rational human beings entitled to rights. Las Casas read for five days straight. The debate ended in a draw, but history remembered who spoke for humanity.
In context
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Era
Renaissance (1501–1650), one of 715 events from that era on Saeculum.
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