Re: Quotes on the Spanish Inquisition
"Fr. Bartolomé de las Casas begged Cardinal Cisneros in 1516 to send the Holy Inquisition to those islands in the Western Indies... Las Casas himself proclaimed a particular Inquisition in his diocesis of Chiapas."*
Henry Kamen, Imperio, ed. Aguilar, Madrid, 2003
(*) It was some denounces of abuses in The Americas that Fr. Bartolomè de las Casas wrote, that were taken by the Jews and the English to feed the fallacies of the Black Legend. Many years later no subject of the English Crown would dare (or care) to write about abuses by English coloners in their colonies.
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