Though he was ordained a priest in 1512/13, perhaps the first person to be so in the Americas, it would be another two years before his. He was the first to push for the Indians to receive rights. Columbus and the conquistadors who followed him strode over Amerindian peoples, from the islands of the Caribbean to the great complex Aztec (Nahua) and Inca empires of Mexico and Peru, and subordinated them to Spanish sovereignty and dominion in a cruel and barbarous fashion. By the year 1516, Las Casas began to advocate for the importation of African slaves to compensate for the decreasing Indians population. After Christopher Columbus there is no more prominent figure in the Spanish conquest of the Americas/the Encounter than the Dominican priest Bartolom de las Casas (b. He describes his accounts of how the Spaniards treated the Indians even with a high chance of repercussions to himself. Though he is affectionately remembered for his enthusiastic defense of the Indians, he is also well-known for his contributions to extending the African slave trade westward. In 1510 he became the first priest ordained in the Americas. He sailed on Christopher Columbus ’s third voyage (1498) and later became a planter on Hispaniola (1502). The Universal Negro Improvement Association of Marcus Garvey- the most prominent black Caribbean organization in Panama at the time-had originally sympathized with the labor militancy, but in the wake of working-class defeats, became increasingly anti-labor. Las Casas was one of the men that profited from this misery. Bartolome’ de las Casas was a priest maintainer of records for Christopher Columbus. Bartolom de Las Casas, (born August 1474, Sevilladied July 17, 1566, Madrid), Spanish historian and missionary, called the Apostle of the Indies.
Between 15 he helped subjugate islands in the Caribbean, mostly notably Cuba. However, the defeat of these strikes undercut the development of a united-working-class movement in Panama, and caused many black Caribbean migrants to leave Panama and made many of those remaining wary of labor radicalism. In any case, de las Casas was a conquistador. Instead, there was an outpouring of labor militancy in this period, including two massive strikes. Bartolomé de las Casas was the 'Protector of the Indians' and one of the first human rights activists. In the face of this, these workers were not so passive or pro-British as they are often depicted. This was the right to exploit the labor of all the indigenous people who lived on a piece of land that de las Casas controlled. For this military service he received an encomienda. The Canal Zone authorities instituted Jim Crow style segregation (under the “Gold” and “Silver” system) to divide the work force, leaving black Caribbean workers paid less, discriminated against, and oppressed. In any case, de las Casas was a conquistador.
The presence of black people in the Panamanian isthmus went back centuries, West Indian migrants were especially discriminated against because they were English-speaking and Protestant.
The present article examines the rise and fall of Afro-Antillano militancy in both the U.S.- controlled Canal Zone and the Republic of Panama from 1914-1921. While the role of Caribbean immigrants in the “New Negro” movement in the United States is now well established, the concurrent militancy of black Caribbean workers in Panama is much less understood.
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