[Magdalen] Columbus.

[ME Michaud]

A friend was doing research at the Huntington Library
and discovered there’s correspondence
between the Jesuits in California and those back in Spain.

The Jesuits in California maintained that, once baptized,
the native people were co-equal.
The Jesuits in Spain claimed that, despite their baptism,
they remained fit only for enslavement.

Fascinating stuff, I thought.
-M

> Don't you suppose this assumed superiority was due in large
> > measure the paganism of the American Indians?
>