Submitted by: Suzanne Oboler, Professor, Latin American and Latinx Studies at John Jay College of Criminal Justice
To read online: Why the Indians Are Dying
“Spaniard Alonso de Zorita began serving on the Mexico City audiencia in 1556. He returned to Spain in 1566 and began work on his Brief and Summary Relation of the Lords of New Spain, from which the above text is excerpted. Although he was writing well before the development of the germ theory of disease, he did observe how Spanish mistreatment of Indians predisposed them to disease and an early death.”
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