Note XIX‑15 — Chapter XIX · THE ECCLESIASTICS IN CHIAPAS. 1550.
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Las Casas' opponents contended that this included all slaves however acquired. Las Casas, Rel., in Pacheco and Cárdenas, Col. Doc., vii. 158; Carta, Audiencia, July 20, 1545, in Squier's MSS., xxii. 111-12. Las Casas, that it only concerned those unlawfully enslaved. Carta, Oct. 25, 1545, in Id., 122-3. But practically it embraced all slaves, for their legal enslavement was difficult of proof. Carta, Audiencia, Dec. 30, 1545, in Id., 130-1.