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Who Really Faced the Inquisition in Colonial Spanish America? - The American Inquisition and the Archive of Ordinary Lives | Sleepy Facts About History
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The popular image of the Spanish Inquisition brings to mind hooded figures, dungeons, and public burnings. But when this institution crossed the Atlantic to the Americas, it functioned quite differently. Established in three permanent courts in Mexico City, Lima, and Cartagena, the American Inquisition operated less through spectacular violence and more through a vast, quiet bureaucracy of denunciations, secret investigations, and notarial records. This episode explores how these tribunals…
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