The “voices of compassion” in the Spanish conquest were many. Rather than being isolated voices, they were part of a movement, and in many cases of a network. They had at least three characteristics in common: they were born out of direct experience with the suffering of the native inhabitants of these lands; they went beyond verbal protest to planning and organizing structural and political alternatives; and they developed a theological outlook which contrasts with what was dominant in Spain at the time, but which found support in Spain among those who had most direct contact with the missionary enterprise.
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