"Lewis Hanke has done more than anyone else in this century to make the `apostle of the Indians' known
to the Anglo-Saxon world."
--New York Review of Books
"Will provide the reader of Las Casas's treatise with a useful guide to the labyrinth of his thought."
--Times Literary Supplement
Northern Illinois University Press Web Site, January, 2001
Summary
A Study of the Disputation between Bartlome de Las Casas and Juan Gines de Sepulveda on the religious and iltellectual
capacity of the American Indians.