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Article #16816[OT] Alouette et Taliban /S D Rodrian
From: Odysseus
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 01:27
Date: Sat, 08 Dec 2001 01:27
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Jonathan Silverlight wrote: > > >There you are COMPLETELY wrong: From the very first days the > >Spanish explorers stepped on the American shores... Catholic > >priests hounded their every attempt to enslave the American > >natives (as exemplified by Father de las Casas). Do you remember > >all the millions of Native American slaves? Well, there's a good > >reason you don't. You can read about de las Casas here: > > Sorry, but no, or at least not in Brazil - where slavery was most > entrenched and where the slaves were treated with unimaginable cruelty. > If a slave lived for two years he or she had given value for money. The > church fully supported the enslavement of Africans. Not to mention the people rounded up from villages in the Peruvian jungle and forced to work in the mining and refining operations in the Andes, to die horribly from altitude sickness and mercury poisoning ... I doubt the numbers were anywhere near in the millions, but that still doesn't mean the Europeans' actions can be called anything like 'civilized'. What may have been an even greater crime from a cultural standpoint was the melting down of literally tons of Inca metalwork, irreplaceable art and iconography that the Christians regarded as idolatrous, into bullion for coinage. --Odysseus
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