Chapter I: Front Matter

COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY.

COLONIZATION AND CHRISTIANITY:

A

POPULAR HISTORY

OF THE

TREATMENT OF THE NATIVES

BY THE EUROPEANS

IN ALL THEIR COLONIES.

BY

WILLIAM HOWITT.

Have we not all one father?—hath not one God created us?
Why do we deal treacherously every man against his brother?

_Malachi_ ii. 10.

LONDON:
LONGMAN, ORME, BROWN, GREEN, & LONGMANS.
1838.

LONDON:

PRINTED BY MANNING AND SMITHSON,
IVY-LANE, PATERNOSTER-ROW.

The object of this volume is to lay open to the public the most extensive and extraordinary system of crime which the world ever witnessed. It is a system which has been in full operation for more than three hundred years, and continues yet in unabating activity of evil. The apathy which has hitherto existed in England upon this subject has proceeded in a great measure from want of knowledge. National injustice towards particular tribes, or particular individuals, has excited the most lively feeling, and the most energetic exertions for its redress,—but the whole wide field of unchristian operations in which this country, more than any other, is engaged, has never yet been laid in a clear and comprehensive view before the public mind. It is no part of the present volume to suggest particular plans of remedy. The first business is to make known the nature and the extent of the evil,—that once perceived, in this great country there will not want either heads to plan or hands to accomplish all that is due to the rights of others, or the honour and interest of England.

_West End Cottage, Esher,
June 8th, 1838._

CONTENTS.

CHAPTER I. PAGE

Introduction 1

II.

The Discovery of the New World 11

III.

The Papal Gift of all the Heathen World to the Portuguese
and Spaniards 19

IV.

The Spaniards in Hispaniola 28

V.

The Spaniards in Hispaniola and Cuba 43

VI.

The Spaniards in Jamaica and other West Indian Islands 56

VII.

The Spaniards in Mexico 62

VIII.

The Spaniards in Peru 92

IX.

The Spaniards in Peru—(_continued_) 104

X.

The Spaniards in Paraguay 119