Used book – The Controversy of Valladolid, Jean-Claude Carrière

In a convent in Valladolid, some sixty years after the discovery of the New World, two men clash in a passionate debate: are Indians men like any other? For the Dominican Las Casas, an ardent defender of the Indian cause, there is no doubt: the Spaniards, eager for conquest, denied the obvious, enslaving and massacring millions of indigenous people. Facing him, the philosopher Sepúlveda asserts that certain peoples are born to be dominated. Both agree on one point: the necessary salvation of souls. The outcome of this confrontation, decisive for millions of men, could well be surprising...