tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251801699196599103.post2064393735790607115..comments2023-05-01T02:24:36.391-07:00Comments on La Paz de Susan: Very brief history of El Salvador, part 2Susan Dewitthttp://www.blogger.com/profile/15958089670233350401noreply@blogger.comBlogger2125tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251801699196599103.post-43279481734739460922009-01-22T10:37:00.000-08:002009-01-22T10:37:00.000-08:00Thanks for these helpful comments! - I hope I put ...Thanks for these helpful comments! - I hope I put some disclaimers in: I'm no historian of Central America, relying on the work of others. Very true that the Spanish intermixed widely with both indigenous and African slave populations - however, very few Africans were brought to El Salvador, so that is a very minor element in the population mix here. The statement that mestizos had no right to private property is translated from the Historia de El Salvador published by Equipo Maiz.Susan Dewitthttps://www.blogger.com/profile/15958089670233350401noreply@blogger.comtag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6251801699196599103.post-7535220535201291452009-01-22T09:34:00.000-08:002009-01-22T09:34:00.000-08:00Looking forward to your chapter 3. Regarding Spani...Looking forward to your chapter 3. <BR/><BR/>Regarding Spanish colonial society, I'd note that the Spaniards were the only European colonizers who widely intermixed with native, and later slave African populations, giving rise to an ethnically mixed population, such as did not exist outside Spanish America. The stratification was more a function of the neo-feudal system of production imported from Spain than of ethnic prejudice, which is what the average American focuses on.<BR/><BR/>I would question whether, in a population that became rapidly and overwhelmingly mestizo, mestizos "had no right to private property."<BR/><BR/>On the whole, though, not a bad summary.Cecilio Moraleshttps://www.blogger.com/profile/05283375962527765787noreply@blogger.com