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What role did Bartolomé de Las Casas play in reforming

Spain's policies toward Native Americans

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Las Casas convinced Spanish authorities to allow him to try to save the few remaining Caribbean native people by freeing them from enslavement and placing them in free towns, but the death of Spain's King Ferdinand in 1516 and the resulting chaos over his successor caused these reforms to be delayed.

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