1502
1502: Bartolomé de Las Casas arrives in Hispaniola as a young settler, later becoming a leading critic of Spanish brutality.
1502: Bartolomé de Las Casas arrives in Hispaniola as a young settler, later becoming a leading critic of Spanish brutality. He witnessed the devastating impact of the encomienda system on the native Taino people.
Source · p. 14
Dubois, Avengers of the New World, 14