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- From: dbernard@clesun.Central.Sun.COM (Dave Bernard)
- Newsgroups: alt.rush-limbaugh
- Subject: Re: Columbus vs Indians (was Re: PC lives)
- Date: 29 Dec 1992 17:12:53 GMT
- Organization: Sun Microsystems
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- Bill ANderson writes:
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- :
- >: Actually, the reports I've read indicate that the missionairies were very
- >: concerned with the Indians, at least those who converted and were under
- >: their charge. There are constant reports of their complaints to the king
- >: regarding ill-treatment of Indians by the civil authorities & armies. Like
- >: missionaries- medical, spritual, teaching- everywhere, they seem to have taken
- >: the welfare of their people very seriously.
- >:
- >: Dave
-
- >Some of them did. Most of our knowledge of Spanish attrocities in
- >the new world comes from priests wh protested against it; this
- >attitude certainly wasn't universal among the clergy, however.
- >Many of them used Indians as slave labor at their missions, and
- m
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- Missions were established to spread the religion and the culture, and to protect
- converts. In effect, they were villages, often fortified. Indians who exercised
- their freedom of choice to convert were given the opportunity of raising crops.
- Is this slave labor? Then working in a corporation today to earn a living is
- slave labor, by the same token. What would be the purpose of slave labor if it
- was to make the slaves self-sufficient, not to make the owners- the missionaries-
- rich and powerful? As for those who chose not to convert, and to live apart, how
- could missions persecute them? Especially since those living apart frequently
- exercised their own free will to burn down the missions?
-
- Dave
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