What made Bartolomé de Las Casas famous?

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Chiefly through his agency, humanitarian laws, called the New Laws, were adopted (1542) to protect the indigenous people in Spanish colonies, although later alterations, notably those of Pedro de la Gasca , rendered them almost ineffective.

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