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The disconsolate parable and White subtitle Relationship Between the Spanish and Indians in the immature World The Spanish-Indian kind can be defined in manyways. One translation used is through the sear Legend and theWhite Legend. The interpretation of the Black Legend candepend on whom you are talking to. The Black Legend speaks ofthe Spaniards abusing the Indians and being guilty of muchmore misconduct than muniment has ever recorded. The WhiteLegend speaks of how the Spaniards benefitted the Indian alliance by twist communities, hospitals and spreading theWord of God. There are two reasons why the Spaniards were sointent on spreading the Gospel. The first is because Spainwanted to ensure policy-making and military means of safety andindependence of their own religious federation and even more sotheir predominance over others. The second was a deeperdesire to convert, which included appealing to the minds andhearts of individual unbelievers by preaching, lo gical thinking andif needed by force (Plumb 152). The conquest of the new world began with a small band ofSpanish soldiers. The soldiers proceeded to march against andsubdue the huge universe of the mainland (Black 24). TheBlack Legend speaks of all that the Spanish had through with(p) to theIndians and the horrible things done to them and the land.This Black Legend exists only in areas where the people areanti-Hispanic particularly where English is spoken, and inmodern Spanish America (24). The White Legend is true only in reverse. The people whoclaim to believe in this Legend hold to the belief that theSpanish were a credit to society and help the Indians in theireveryday lives by providing livestock and new medici... ... they had never intended to live. They were forcedto lose their families in the name of the Spanish ceiling andthe Spanish crown had only a vague knowledge of what was rightfully happening in the new world. Which one, whether Blackor White Legend, a person believes will have to depend ontheir own personalised view of the truth.BibliographyGibson, Charles. The Black Legend Anti-Spanish Attitudes in the Old World and the new. New York Knopf 1971.--------- Spain in America. New York harpist 1966.--------- Spanish Tradition in America. Ny Harper 1968.Haring, C.H. The Spanish Empire in America. New York Oxford1947.Ludenfeld, Marvin. 1492 Discovery Invasion Encounter. Massachussets 1991.Plumb, J.H. The Spanish Seaborne Empire. New York Knopf 1966.Sale, Kirkpatrick. The Conquest of Paradise. New York Plume1990.