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The Reformation · 1541
History of the Indians of New Spain
Toribio de Benavente Motolinía · c. 1482–1569
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What it is
An early friar's account of the conquest's aftermath — mass baptisms, epidemics, the destruction of temples — by a man the Nahuas named for his poverty.
Why it lasted
A principal source for the first generation of the Mexican mission, and evidence of how differently friars on the ground read the same events.
Where to read it
Public domain and free to read in full, though not held here. The archives below have it.
These open a search on each archive rather than a direct link, which is the honest way to point at an edition nobody here has checked line by line.
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