Antonio de montesinos biography of abraham hicks death

Antonio de Montesinos or Antonio Montesino Spain , c. Montesinos became a Dominican friar at the convent of St. Stephen in Salamanca , where he may have studied.

Antonio de montesinos biography of abraham hicks death: Montenegro, Jos6 Antonio: Biogr.

This was 19 years after Christopher Columbus had landed on the island and Spain started to colonize it. Tell me by what right of justice do you hold these Indians in such a cruel and horrible servitude? On what authority have you waged such detestable wars against these people who dealt quietly and peacefully on their own lands?

Wars in which you have destroyed such an infinite number of them by homicides and slaughters never heard of before. Why do you keep them so oppressed and exhausted, without giving them enough to eat or curing them of the sicknesses they incur from the excessive labor you give them, and they die, or rather you kill them, in order to extract and acquire gold every day.

The initial result of the protests of the friars at Santo Domingo was an order from King Ferdinand II that Montesinos and other Dominicans who supported him should be shipped back to Spain. After returning to Spain, Montesinos and his companions were able to persuade the king of the righteousness of their position. As a result, the king convened a commission that promulgated the Laws of Burgos , the first code of ordinances to protect the indigenous people, regulate their treatment and conversion, and limit the demands of the Spanish colonizers upon them.

In June , with Fr.