cactusjumper
Gold Member
Roy,
Your point is well taken. Poor choice of words on my part.
Many authors have spent countless hours in those archives. As I don't read, write or understand Spanish, it would be a bit of a waste for me to visit them. I prefer to read the work, in English, of those who are better equipped and educated than I. While they may have missed such a momentous charge, I somehow doubt it.
Whichever side of the stories a person comes down on, the other side will never believe the "facts" presented.
In closing, I have never seen any original documents of Indian charges against the Jesuits. I have read the accounts of a number of such documents, and Jesuits using Indian labor for mining was never included.
It could, of course, have happened.
Take care,
Joe
Your point is well taken. Poor choice of words on my part.
Many authors have spent countless hours in those archives. As I don't read, write or understand Spanish, it would be a bit of a waste for me to visit them. I prefer to read the work, in English, of those who are better equipped and educated than I. While they may have missed such a momentous charge, I somehow doubt it.
Whichever side of the stories a person comes down on, the other side will never believe the "facts" presented.
In closing, I have never seen any original documents of Indian charges against the Jesuits. I have read the accounts of a number of such documents, and Jesuits using Indian labor for mining was never included.
It could, of course, have happened.
Take care,
Joe