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Indian Freedom: The Cause of Bartolom6 de las Casas, 1484-1566. A Reader. Translations and Notes by Francis Patrick Sullivan, SJ. (Kansas City, Missouri: Sheed & Ward. 1995. Pp. iv, 371. $24.95 paperback.)
The late Frank Sullivan put together this fascinating collection of excerpts, mostly from his unpublished Las Casas translations, when the Angel of Death was hovering too close. A prolific writer of poetry, fiction, and essays, he was losing a long battle with cancer, and this reviewer was unable to recheck and make suggestions for what was to have been a great anthology
The resulting full-size paperback, almost four hundred pages, is a good bargain for the price. So I heartily recommend it, with reservations, as a classroom aid for teachers in the early Spanish colonial field and for persons interested in the Discovery and Conquest. Indian Freedom fits into a current new approach: Las Casas as literature. Thus, a recent monograph describes the supposed...