Darren Esparza

History

19 November, 06:35

Evaluate the extent to which Christianity changed societies in Latin America in the period 1500-1800.

Document 1

Source: Record of the confession of Domingos Fernandes Nobre, a Brazilian man of mixed

European-Amerindian ancestry, at his Inquisition trial, Brazil, 1592.

The defendant, Domingos Fernandes Nobre, confessed that twenty years ago he went to the wilderness of

Porto Seguro, Brazil, in the company of others to search for gold, and there he practiced the customs of the

heathens, staining his legs with paint. He also confessed that sixteen years ago he was ordered to go to the

region of Paraiba, as captain of a company to bring natives as slaves downriver to be settled and, while being

there, he painted his body in the heathen way and danced and sang and played musical instruments with the

heathens in their way.