Spain's king makes rare acknowledgement of country's colonial abuses

MADRID, March 16 (Reuters) - Spain's King Felipe VI acknowledged abuses in his country's colonial past on Monday, a rare ...
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Jews were barred from Spain’s New World colonies − but that didn’t stop Jewish and converso writers from describing the Americas

Add Yahoo as a preferred source to see more of our stories on Google. An auto-da-fé − a public punishment for heretics − in San Bartolome Otzolotepec, in present-day Mexico. Museo Nacional de Arte via ...
The New York Times

Abolition of Slavery in the Spanish Colonies.

TimesMachine is an exclusive benefit for home delivery and digital subscribers. About the Archive This is a digitized version of an article from The Times’s print archive, before the start of online ...
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Tupac Amaru II’s Indigenous uprising against colonial Spain

In the late 1700s, Indigenous peoples in the Spanish colonies of the Andes were forced to work for the Spanish. They tilled the land, worked in the textile mills and the mines. Those that didn’t faced ...
Courthouse News Service

Bones Tell the Story of African Slaves in Spanish Colonies

Skulls and dental decoration patterns for the three African individuals. The skeletons are part of the collection of San José de los Naturales, guarded at the Osteology Laboratory of the Post Graduate ...
Slate

How Did France and England Influence Views About Spain’s South American Colonies?

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Spain and Portugal’s Huddled Masses Seek Jobs in Former Colonies

There are few better places that illustrate the impact of the Spanish conquest of Latin America than the Plaza de Armas in Cuzco, Peru. Cathedrals with foundations of perfectly hewn Incan stone sit ...