 Las Casas is often considered to be one of the first advocates for a universal conception of human dignity (later human rights).Bartolomé de las Casas was born in Seville in 1484, on 11 November.For centuries, Las Casas's birthdate was believed to be 1474; however, in the 1970s, scholars conducting archival work demonstrated this to be an error, after uncovering in the "Archivo General de Indias" records of a contemporary lawsuit that demonstrated he was born a decade later than had been supposed.