What is the "Black Legend ?"?

Question

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Answer 1

The Black Legend (Spanish: La Leyenda Negra) is a term coined by Julián Juderías in his 1914 book La leyenda negra y la verdad histórica (The Black Legend and Historical Truth), to describe the unfair and biased depiction of Spain and Spaniards as "cruel", "intolerant" and "fanatical" in anti-Spanish pamphlets and books starting in the 16th century. The Black Legend propaganda is said to be influenced by national and religious rivalries as seen in works by early Protestant historians and Anglo Saxon writers, describing the period of Spanish imperialism in a deliberately negative way. Other examples of the Black Legend are said to be the historical revision of the Inquisition, and in the villains and storylines of modern fiction and film.

The Black Legend and the nature of Spanish colonization of the Americas including contributions to civilization in Spain's colonies have also been discussed by Spanish writers, from Gongora's Soledades until the Generation of '98. Inside Spain, the Black Legend has also been used by regionalists of non-Castilian regions of Spain as a political weapon against the central government or Spanish nationalism. Modern historians and some political parties have countered with the White Legend, in an attempt to describe Spain's history in a more neutral and balanced way. The White Legend is sometimes mistakenly associated with Spanish Nationalistic politics and with the regime of dictator Francisco Franco.The legend finds its most usual expression, that is, its typical form, in judgments about cruelty, superstition, and political tyranny. They have preferred to see cruelty in the proceedings that were undertaken to implant the Faith in America or defend it in Flanders; superstition, in the supposed opposition by Spain to all spiritual progress and any intellectual activity; and tyranny, in the restrictions that drowned the free lives of Spaniards born in the New World and to whom it seemed that they were enslaved indefinitely

Answer 2

1. The Legend of the Black Donnellys

2. The Legend of Sleepy Hollow

3. The Legend of Boggy Creek

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Answer 3

The Black Legend was the point of view that the Spanish were very tyranical and intolerant in their treatment of the American Indians.

Answer 4

I shudder with goose bumps whenever the "Black Legend" is mentioned.

Answer 5

you know...the whole thing where they say all black guys are hung like horses

Answer 6

never heard of it