DOI: 10.11647/obp.0532.05 ISSN:

5. The Activist Archive of Colonial Peru and Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova’s 1630 Memorial

Buenaventura de Salinas y Córdova

A substantial critical essay that situates Salinas’s Memorial within a broader tradition of colonial advocacy. Mapping the legacy of Bartolomé de Las Casas’s Brevísima relación de la destrucción de las Indias (1552), the essay traces a vibrant ‘activist archive’ of colonial Peru in which creole, Indigenous (such as Guaman Poma de Ayala), and Spanish voices contested oppression and demanded fair treatment for Native communities.

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