Bartolomé de Las Casas is best known for
- A
Conquering the Aztec Empire alongside Cortés and writing 'True History of the Conquest of New Spain'
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Defending Native Americans against Spanish abuses and writing 'A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies'
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Discovering the silver mountain at Potosí in 1545 and organizing Indigenous mita labor drafts
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Founding St. Augustine in 1565 and establishing the first permanent Spanish presidio in Florida
Explanation
A Spanish friar who became an outspoken critic of the encomienda system, though he initially supported African slavery as an alternative.