"Although the myth of the particular or unusual cruelty of the Spanish Inquisition is now well debunked by scholars, it survives in the popular imagination." Everything you think you know about Catholic Spain and its presence in the New World is wrong. Even as they committed far greater atrocities, protestant powers used accounts of Spanish misdeeds *written by enlightened Spaniards themselves* to create the Black Legend.
The propaganda continues to misinform minds half a millennium later.
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