I do not have much time today, but I found it interesting that even early during the Spanish conquest, there were men like de las Casas who spoke out against the barbaric violence done to native inhabitants....
The Spanish were kind of horrific...
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Yes, they would sick dogs on live people.... |
Knowing what they were doing was pretty horrible...the Spanish had propaganda historians who wrote defenses of the Conquistador behavior and provided reasons for why it was ok to murder and enslave people...
One of their reasons (this is funny later since the herb took over Europe) was tobacco. Early accounts claimed that tobacco was this evil plant that natives used to contact the devil.
Oh man...by the 17th century, those Spanish sure did want to contact the devil a lot.