The Pueblo Revolt

In the essence of violent religious conversion, the Pueblo Indians demonstrated their greatest victory against Spanish control. Specifically, spanish missionaries and franciscan friars demolished the Native Americans’ opposing religious symbols in efforts to forcibly convert them to catholicism and potentially invade their land. The reaction to the violent act of conversion is especially reflected in the Declaration of Josephe, “ [...] burned the churches down and shouted in loud voices, “Now the God of the Spaniards, who was their father, is dead, and Santa Maria, who was their mother, and the saints, who were the pieces of rotten wood,” (Voices of Freedom, The Pueblo Revolt, p. 10). The document continues to advise and insist that the Native …show more content…
Individuals working the tobacco fields were mostly men, completely outnumbering women in the colony. The Virginia Company widely advocated the immigration of unmarried women; however they insisted that the women were to marry free colonists who were required to pay in tobacco to their wives. With this in mind, The Virginia Company believed that women were the key component to the colony. For instance as seen in The Voices of Freedom, “There are near fifty more which are shortly to come, are sent by our most honorable Lord and Treasurer the Earl of Southhampton and certain worthy gentlemen, who taking into their consideration that the Plantation can never flourish till the families be planted and the respect of wives and children fix the people on the soil,” (Voices of Freedom, Sending Women to Virginia, p.26). From this excerpt, women are essential to the growth of the colony. Without women to conceive children, therefore extending the colony, there would be a major setback on the strive for expansion during this …show more content…
When analyzing The Pueblo Revolt document, Give Me Liberty expands on the Spanish efforts to do more than just conquer. The Native Americans were exposed first hand to the Spanish influence of the “true faith” (Liberty, p.26). As a result, the Native American way of life would be molded by the Spanish both economically and spiritually. Also, Give Me Liberty provides insight towards the Sending Women to Virginia document. To understand the value of marriage in the tobacco colony, it was known that shipping women for women was ideal to the Virginia Company, however the death rate was extremely high and women often completely their duties as indentured servants as well as exposed to poverty once their husbands passes away (Liberty, pg.