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

The Black Legend and White Legend Relationship Between the Spanish and Indians in the overbold World The Spanish-Indian relationship can be defined in manyways. One definition used is through the Black Legend and theWhite Legend. The version of the Black Legend candepend on whom you are talking to. The Black Legend speaks ofthe Spaniards abusing the Indians and being guilty of much more misconduct than invoice has ever recorded. The WhiteLegend speaks of how the Spaniards benefitted the Indiansociety by building communities, hospitals and spreading theWord of God. There are two reasons why the Spaniards were so heading on spreading the Gospel. The first is because Spainwanted to ensure political and military means of safety andindependence of their own religious community and even more sotheir predominance over others. The second was a deeperdesire to convert, which included appealing to the minds andhearts of individual unbelievers by preaching, reasoning andif neede d by hurtle (Plumb 152). The conquest of the new world began with a small 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 only in areas where the people areanti-Hispanic especially where English is spoken, and inmodern Spanish the States (24). The White Legend is true only in reverse. The people whoclaim to believe in this Legend hold to the belief that theSpanish were a creed to society and help the Indians in theireveryday lives by providing livestock and new medici... ... they had never intended to live. They were forcedto lose their families in the name of the Spanish lead andthe Spanish crown had only a vague knowledge of what wasreally happening in the new world. Which one, whether Blackor White Legend, a soul believes will have to depend onthe ir own personal view of the truth.BibliographyGibson, Charles. The Black Legend Anti-Spanish Attitudes in the Old World and the new. raw 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 conquest of Paradise. New York Plume1990.