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Why Did The Americans Take Away Christianity Against Indians

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The Spaniards were wrong for keeping the Indians as their slaves. The Spaniards also had no right to take away what religious believes the Indians had. Two documents, the first one was by Las Casas who was a Dominican priest, he documented how the Spaniards treated the Indians as slaves because the Indians did not want to convert to Christianity. The second document was by Josepha who was a Spanish-speaking Indian who documented the Native Americans taking away Christianity from the Spaniards. The Spaniard took away all the freedom from the Indians, because the Spaniards want the Indians to convert to Christianity, the Indians did not want to convert so the Spaniards took everything from the Indians, and used the Indians as slaves. Las Casas

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