178 Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America
Ben Franklin's World
Liz Covart
4.6 • 1.5K Ratings
🗓️ 20 March 2018
⏱️ 50 minutes
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Summary
In 1535, Spanish holdings in the Americas proved so great that the Spanish government created the Viceroyalty of New Spain to govern all territory north of the Isthmus of Panama.
The jurisdiction of New Spain included areas of upper and lower California and large areas of the American southwest and southeast, including Florida.
Karoline Cook, author of Forbidden Passages: Muslims and Moriscos in Colonial Spanish America, serves as our guide as we explore some of the political, cultural, and religious history of New Spain. Specifically, how Spaniards and Spanish Americans used ideas about Muslims and a group of “new Christian” converts called Moriscos to define who could and should be able to settle and help colonies North America.
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| 0:00.0 | Ben Franklin's World is a production of the |
| 0:02.1 | O'Mohandro Institute and the sponsor for this episode is |
| 0:05.1 | Hello Fresh. |
| 0:06.1 | Welcome to Ben Franklin's World, |
| 0:09.7 | Podcast about Early American History with Liz Covert. |
| 0:14.4 | The study of history is key to understanding who we are and how we can affect the better future. |
| 0:19.8 | Ben Franklin's world will introduce you to historical people and events that have impacted |
| 0:24.4 | and shaped our present day world. |
| 0:26.8 | And now here's your host, Liz Kovalin. |
| 0:29.6 | Hello and welcome to episode 178 of Ben Franklin's world. |
| 0:34.0 | The podcast dedicated to helping you, |
| 0:37.0 | learn more about how the people and events of our early American past |
| 0:40.0 | have shaped the present day world we live in. |
| 0:43.0 | When we learn about early American history, |
| 0:45.0 | most of our teachers and college professors |
| 0:47.0 | begin with stories of Jamestown and Plymouth. |
| 0:50.0 | They start early American history with 17th century colonial stories, |
| 0:54.0 | but the history of early America is actually much older, |
| 0:57.0 | even if you just stick with colonial American history. |
| 1:00.0 | For example, one place we could start to talk about colonial American history is in 1492, |
| 1:07.0 | when Christopher Columbus sailed west from Spain and landed on the island of Hispaniola. |
| 1:12.2 | From Hispaniola, the Spanish went on to colonize large parts of the Caribbean, Central America, |
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