Mind-Benders of Christian History
Old enough to watch Columbus come home
Bartolomé de las Casas, who would later become a prominent defender of Indigenous peoples, was a boy of about eight in Seville in the spring of 1493 when Christopher Columbus paraded through the city on his return from the first Atlantic crossing. His own father sailed on Columbus's second voyage later that year.
How we know
Las Casas born Seville 1484; Columbus's return parade through Seville, spring 1493; his father Pedro sailed on Columbus's second voyage (September 1493).
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