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Pedro de Crdoba OP was a Spanish missionary, author and inquisitor on the island of Hispaniola. He was first to denounce the Spanish system known as the Encomienda, which amounted to the practical enslavement of natives of the New World, for the abuses that it engendered.

He was born at Crdoba, Andalusia, southern Spain. He studied theology at the University of Salamanca and there joined the order of Dominicans.

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