[Magdalen] Columbus.

[Marion Thompson]

Shades of 'The Mission'.

Marion


On 10/18/2017 7:52 PM, ME Michaud wrote:
> 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?
> .
>