2 gen 1552 anni - The New Laws of the West Indies

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The New Laws of the West Indies, which were also called the New Laws of the Indies for the Good Treatment and Preservation of the Indians, were collections of rules of how people should properly treat the Native Americans. The rules regulated social, political, and economic life. Bartolome de las Casas was the first to expose the poor treatment of the Natives by the Europeans, and he called for the abolition of slavery. De las Casas said that Native Americans cannot be slaves, and they get good treatment and preservation. He wrote to the king and queen of Spain to tell them of the Spanish treatment of the Native Americans. He enforced these rules because Europeans were constantly killing Indians and took their land and took advantage of them. The New Laws of the West Indies are very important because they were the first protest of the Native Americans treatment, and De las Casas recognized the problem, and he fought to solve it.