Tuesday, September 6, 2022

Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda

Read before class:

• Instructions to Nicolas de Ovanda, Governor of Hispaniola, from King Ferdinand and Isabella, 1501 (CP 5-6)
• Sepulveda, Democrates Alter (ICCW 523-529)
• Las Casas, Apologetic History of the Indies, Thirty Very Juridical Propositions, A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies (ICCW 530-43 (Norton Anthology of World Literature, hereafter NAWL, 566-571)
• Gonzales Jimenez de Quesada, “One After Another, they All Fell under Your Majesty’s Rule” (Colombia Reader 22-33)