Valladolid debate

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Summary

The Valladolid debate was the first public debate in European history to discuss the morality, rights and treatment of Indigenous people by European colonizers.

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major public confrontation regarding indigenous rights
This 1550–1551 moral debate pitted Las Casas against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda over the legitimacy of the Spanish conquest and the humanity of the indigenous peoples.
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intellectual context for human rights
Soto's work on natural law and the rights of indigenous peoples provided the intellectual framework for the debates regarding the treatment of Native Americans in the Spanish colonies.
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