Antonio de Montesinos

In the early years of the Spanish conquest, settlers, conquistadors, bureaucrats and mercenaries all flocked to the Caribbean, looking to make a quick fortune in gold or slaves. The natives of the islands of the Caribbean were massacred, captured, enslaved and sold, in addition to the thousands which died from unknown European diseases. The rapine went on unabated until one man spoke out against it. That man was Father Antonio de Montesinos, and the New World would never be the same.