La Inquisición y los infieles: los mineros saxones a finales del siglo XVIII en Nueva España

• Autores: Eduardo Flores Clair
• Localización: Jahrbuch für Geschichte Lateinamerikas = Anuario de Historia de América Latina ( JbLA ), ISSN-e 2194-3680, Nº. 48, 2011, págs. 227-244
• Idioma: español
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  • This paper intends to analyze one of the most outrageous subjects related to religious intolerance in American territories. The plan of the Spanish crown to hire Saxon miners for the exploitation of American mines is a good example that shows the harassment, reject, and prosecution of all those who did not profess the Catholic religion.

    At the end of the eighteenth century, the options for these Saxons were the conversion to Catholicism or the maintenance of their own cult, even though this meant an opposition status in society