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AFTER CERTAINTY

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Lewis Hanke

Historian of the Valladolid debate over Indigenous rights and Spanish imperial conscience.

Why this matters

Hanke shows empire forced—briefly—to argue whether all mankind is one.

Focus in observatory

Works

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All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation between

Hanke, Lewis. *All Mankind Is One: A Study of the Disputation between Bartolomé de las Casas and Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda in 1550 on the Intellectual and Religious Capacity of the American Indians*. De

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