The Black Legend and White Legend: Relationship Between the Spanish an

The benighted fable and White story Relationship Between the Spanish and Indians in the New World The Spanish-Indian relationship can be delineate in manyways. One definition used is through the Black Legend and theWhite Legend. The interpretation of the Black Legend can weigh on whom you are talking to. The Black Legend speaks ofthe Spaniards abusing the Indians and being punishable of muchmore misconduct than history has ever recorded. The WhiteLegend speaks of how the Spaniards benefitted the Indiansociety by building communities, hospitals and bed cover theWord of God. in that location are two reasons why the Spaniards were sointent on spreading the Gospel. The first is because Spainwanted to ensure political and military means of asylum andindependence of their own religious community and even more sotheir predominance over others. The second was a deeperdesire to convert, which included good-hearted to the minds andhearts of individual unbelievers by preach ing, reasoning andif needed by push (Plumb 152). The conquest of the crude world began with a sm both band ofSpanish soldiers. The soldiers proceeded to march against andsubdue the huge population of the mainland (Black 24). TheBlack Legend speaks of all that the Spanish had done to theIndians and the horrible things done to them and the land.This Black Legend exists scarcely in areas where the people areanti-Hispanic especially where English is spoken, and in new-fangled Spanish America (24). The White Legend is true except in reverse. The people whoclaim to believe in this Legend hold to the article of belief that theSpanish were a credit to society and help the Indians in their daily lives by providing livestock and new medici... ... they had never intended to live. They were forcedto recidivate their families in the name of the Spanish crown andthe Spanish crown had only a vague knowledge of what wasreally happening in the new world. Which one, whether Blackor White Legend, a person believes will suck up to depend ontheir own personal view of the truth.BibliographyGibson, Charles. The Black Legend Anti-Spanish Attitudes in the Old World and the new. New York Knopf 1971.--------- Spain in America. New York harper 1966.--------- Spanish Tradition in America. Ny Harper 1968.Haring, C.H. The Spanish Empire in America. New York Oxford1947.Ludenfeld, Marvin. 1492 Discovery Invasion Encounter. Massachussets 1991.Plumb, J.H. The Spanish Seaborne Empire. New York Knopf 1966.Sale, Kirkpatrick. The subjection of Paradise. New York Plume1990.