Antonio de Montesinos's Advent sermon (Santo Domingo, 1511)

The sermon a Dominican preached on Hispaniola in 1511 against the men who held Indians in repartimiento, and the chain it set off: a second sermon that refused to retract, a friar sent across the Atlantic to put the case to Ferdinand in person, and a junta of jurists and theologians whose members are named. Read from the chronicle of the crown's own chief chronicler of the Indies, which also records what the protest failed to change.