2012, ISBN: 1130842002

[EAN: 9781130842005], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers c… Meer...

[EAN: 9781130842005], Neubuch, [PU: Rarebooksclub.com, United States], Brand New Book ***** Print on Demand *****.This historic book may have numerous typos and missing text. Purchasers can download a free scanned copy of the original book (without typos) from the publisher. Not indexed. Not illustrated. 1854 Excerpt: .industry, especially in rural districts, had made very little progress. The whole labour of the country in the agricultural districts was performed by means of slaves, or the Indians and half-castes, to whom toil was a matter of necessity. Those of the pure Castilian blood were nowhere more than a fifth of the whole inhabitants; + in Mexico, where their proportion was greatest, they were, in 1810, when the revolution broke out, one million two hundred thousand out Compare France in 1789, under Romish direction in matters of religion, and England in 1843, under Protestant. t Table exhibiting the population of Spanish America, including Mexico and Brazil, iri 1810 when the Revolution broke out, distinguishing the Spaniards, Creoles, and natives: --of six million one hundred and twenty thousand. The mixed race, or Creoles, were somewhat above a fifth of the whole, or more numerous than the pure Spaniards; and the remaining threefifths were Indians, by whom nearly the whole agricultural labour of the country was carried on. The Creoles were for the most part mechanics or tradesmen in the towns; the pure Spaniards, in great part at least, slumbered in the pleasures of indolence. This was the general division of the population, though with some varieties in particular districts. The whole inhabitants of South America, including the Brazils, were in 1810 thirteen million six hundred thousand, and Mexico contained six millions more; so that the total population of the provinces in the New World in which the Spanish and Portuguese race had settled, was somewhat above nineteen millions, of which number not more than three millions were of the pure Spanish race, and three millions and a half were Creoles or mixed race. This was the growth of three centuries, from 1519, .<