All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation Between Bartolome De Las Casas and Juan Gines De Sepulveda in 1550 on the Religious and Intellectual Capacity of the American Indians

Table of Contents

I. The Nature of the American Indians According to the Spaniards

The Controversy up to 1550

The Bull Sublimis Deus

Should Indians Be Educated?

The Retraction of Domingo de Betanzos

"A Deadly Enemy of the Indians": The Royal Historian Gonzalo Fern ndez de Oviedo y Valdes

Oviedo's Basic Views on Indians

II. Prelude to the Battle At Valladolid Between Las Casas and Sep leda

Preliminary Skirmishings, 1547-1550

The Sessions at Valladolid

Sep lveda's Position

III. Analysis of Las Casas's Treatise

The Two Treatises Prepared by Las Casas to Combat Sep lveda

An Overview of the Argument

The First Section: Las Casas's Response to Sep lveda's Four Reasons for Justifying War Against the Indians in Order to Convert Them

The Second Section: Las Casas's Comments on the Authorities Cited by Sep lveda to Support His Argument

IV. The Aftermath of the Conflict
Echoes of the Controversy to 1573
Continued Conflict on the Capacity of the Indians

Peanuts, Polarization, Polemics, and Paranoia

A Summation

Appendices

Bibliogrpahy and References

Index