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Creoles In Spanish Colonial America

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The term Creole was first used around 1737 as a description of someone who was of European (generally French or Spanish) or African descent. A Creole was born in the West Indies or Spanish or French America and would have been naturalized there instead of the parents’ home country. Although Creoles and Spaniards were legally equal, in Spanish colonial America Creoles were excluded from high offices in both church and state. They were even discriminated against by the Spanish crown whose policy rewarded its Spanish subjects with honorable positions and excluded Creoles while severely restricting their commercial activity. Enmity grew between the Creoles and Spaniards when in the eighteenth century Spanish immigrants came and succeeded in colonial
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