The social and political effects of the Spanish Colonial system
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The Spanish colonies in America were occupied by three races, whose mixture and action upon each other produced a new race and a new society. Of the three race elements, the negro is of no importance, except in the islands and a few districts on the continent. Of the other two elements, the Indian was the most numerous, and the Spaniard the most forceful and energetic. The phenomenon of a blending of concuerors and conquered is common, but the mingling of two races so different as the Indian and the Spaniard, on so large a scale, is unique. In physical structure, in mental endowments, in political, social and religious institutions, there was an immense difference between the most cultured of the Indian tribes and the men of Castile. The fact and manner of the conquest left a permanent inpression of the superiority of the white man. Spanish blood, pure or diluted in greater of less degree with that of the Indian, conveyed through successive generations in the new world something that was characteristically Spanish. It is therefore a matter of importance to know what kind of a man the Conqueror was.
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