2910687 Bartolome de las Casas; (add.info.: Bartolome de las Casas, O.P. was a 16th-Century Spanish historian, social reformer and Dominican friar. He became the first resident Bishop of Chiapas, and the first officially appointed "Protector of the Indians". His extensive writings, the most famous being A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies and Historia de Las Indias, chronicle the first decades of colonization of the West Indies and focus particularly on the atrocities committed by the colonizers against the indigenous people.); Universal History Archive/UIG; out of copyright.