HIST 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 6: Ninety-Five Theses, Puritans, Squanto
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Slaves could be dismembered or even killed, white servants could not be whipped naked. Made criminal for any slave to strike a white person (even a servant) Slaves were prohibited from owning property, while servant property was explicitly protected. Prohibited interracial marriage reserved rare white women for white men. Radical english protestants get lost and end up in the cold. In 1519, the year cortes set out from cuba, all of western europe was officially catholic. Luther had nailed his 95 theses to the church door in wittenberg but had not broken with the. By the time cortes and his men defeated the mexica in 1521, the protestant reformation had begun. England initially remained catholic, and the pope even named henry viii defender of the faith for his efforts to stave off protestantism. But by 1534, henry had decided that it was in his best interests to head the english church himself.
