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 CHAPTER XI. The Portuguese in Brazil 145 XII. The Portuguese in Brazil—(_continued_) 158 XIII. The Portuguese in India 173 XIV. The Dutch in India 185 XV. The English in India.—System of Territorial Acquisition 202 XVI.