How Did Spain Justify Enslaving Native Americans

question 70

Multiple Choice

How did Spain justify enslaving Native Americans?

• A) The Spanish believed that enslavement could liberate Native Americans from their backwardness and savagery and introduce them to Christian civilization.
• B) Pope Alexander VI had approved Spanish slavery but banned slavery in Portuguese holdings in the New World.
• C) The writings of Bartolomé de Las Casas explained that the Bible approved slavery and that therefore it was acceptable.
• D) If England and France were to be defeated in the quest for empire, Spain needed to take a step they had avoided-imposing slavery upon the native population.
• E) The Spanish actually never enslaved Native Americans; the charge that they did was simply part of the Black Legend spread by the English and other enemies.

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