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For renowned historian Jorge Traslosheros, who holds a doctorate in Latin American studies, the so-called “black legend” of the Spanish conquest of lands in the Americas arose “essentially and fundamentally as a profoundly anti-Catholic narrative.”
Traslosheros, a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, explained to the Spanish edition of EWTN News that the “black legend” emerged in the 18th century and was consolidated in that same period, driven by the competition between England and Spain for “dominance in the American colonies.”
In this context, he said, England constructed a narrative, commonly known as the “black legend,” in which it presented its people as “the good guys in history — Anglicans, Protestants — against the perverse Spanish Catholic empire.”
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Traslosheros, a professor at the National Autonomous University of Mexico, explained to the Spanish edition of EWTN News that the “black legend” emerged in the 18th century and was consolidated in that same period, driven by the competition between England and Spain for “dominance in the American colonies.”
In this context, he said, England constructed a narrative, commonly known as the “black legend,” in which it presented its people as “the good guys in history — Anglicans, Protestants — against the perverse Spanish Catholic empire.”
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Historian: Legend of Spanish conquest is ‘profoundly anti-Catholic’
For renowned historian Jorge Traslosheros, the so-called “black legend” of the Spanish conquest of lands in the Americas arose as an “anti-Catholic narrative.”
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