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From South Asia to Mexico, from slave to spiritual icon, this woman's life is a snapshot of Spain's colonization – and the Pacific slave trade history that books often leave out
Spanish merchants then traded her across the Pacific to Mexico, where she became a free woman and a spiritual icon, famous in the city of Puebla for her devotion to Catholicism. As a scholar of ...
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Historical Information
This way of life had sustained the Ohlone for thousands of years, but the onset of Spanish colonization in 1769 introduced dramatic changes. Over the course of several generations, Ohlone society ...
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Christopher Columbus
Even before he set sail from Spain, thousands of people were already ... years—that shephereded in an era of exploration and colonization of North and South America. While this opened up ...
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PM Cameron repeats ‘re-colonization’ argument for Gibraltar and Spain
PM Cameron made the statement in response to questions from a Spanish Popular Party MP during an address to the parliamentary assembly of the Council of Europe in Strasbourg last week. Spanish MP ...