Table of Contents:
  • Front Matter
  • Introduction
  • The Era of Columbus and the Discoverers
  • Justice for All
  • Social Experiments
  • The Era of the Conquests of Mexico and Peru, 1520s-1540s
  • The New Laws of 1542 and Bishop of Chiapa
  • All Mankind is One
  • Conclusion
  • Notes
  • Bibliographic Essay
  • Index.
  • The era of Columbus and the "discoverers"
  • Justice for all
  • Social experiments : the Hieronymite Mission and the Universal Protector of all the Indians
  • The era of the conquests of Mexico and Peru, 1520s-1540s
  • The new laws of 1542 and Bishop of Chiapa
  • "All mankind is one" : on the nature of humans, servitude, and slavery.