The advocacy of Las Casas directly channeled African slavery into the Americas

Evidence

Las Casas had, ironically, advocated the importation of African slaves to save the brutalized indigenous population. Soon imported slaves replaced the rapidly dying indigenous ones, serving as laborers in a new industry that supplemented that of mining. Sugarcane had been brought to the colony by Columbus in 1493, and by the early 1500s the Spanish began establishing the first sugar plantations in the New World. — Dubois, Laurent, Avengers of the New World_ The Story of…, 64

Categorization

• DEFINE: Establishes the causal irony by which a defender of indigenous people became an architect of the African slave trade in the New World.