Marie Arana (“Preparing for the Pope,”column,
June 20) suggests that the Jesuits were expelled from Spanish domains
because they fought for the rights of native populations. This is a rosy
interpretation of history.
While some Jesuit missions provided indigenous populations a degree of
protection, the main reason for the crown’s decision was the growth of
the Jesuit order as a state within the state [emphasis added].
While Bartolomé de las Casas, a Dominican priest and the most
influential critic of the Spanish treatment of indigenous populations in
America, played an influential role in the Spanish crown’s adoption of
laws that would protect these populations, he and the Jesuits did not
challenge Spain’s right to impose its colonial domination over those
populations, using war and forcible relocation if necessary, but instead
furthered it on theological grounds.
They also agreed on the value of slave labor to supplement indigenous
labor in mines and plantations. In fact, the Jesuits owned a
considerable number of African slaves.
PABLO PICCATO
New York, June 25, 2013
New York, June 25, 2013
The writer is a professor of history at Columbia University.
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