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In 1985, the first international conference about this person was hosted by Helen Rand Parish, who devoted her later life to campaigning for this person’s canonization. While translating a work by this person, Jacques de Miggrode (“zhahk deh mih-grode”) inserted watercolor illustrations that would form the basis for a set of Theodor de Bry engravings. This author of the treatise The Only Way resettled a “land of war” as “true peace” and was an early proponent of a “high count” later estimated by Henry Dobyns to be around 100 million. This person led the failed Cumaná colonization scheme in Venezuela. This member of the School of Salamanca contributed to the “Black Legend” in a debate against Juan Ginés de Sepúlveda (“hwan hee-NESS day seh-POOL-veh-dah”); that debate in Valladolid (10[1])(“vah-yah-doh-LEED”) caused Charles V to pass the New Laws. For 10 points, name this Dominican friar and author of A Short Account of the Destruction of the Indies. ■END■

ANSWER: Bartolomé de las Casas (The “land of war” was pacified as Verapaz. The “high count” and 100 million estimated the pre-Columbian population of the Americas.)
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