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    A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions

    A Cross of Thorns: The Enslavement of California's Indians by the Spanish Missions

    by Elias Castillo

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      ISBN-13: 9781610352574
    • Publisher: Linden Publishing
    • Publication date: 02/15/2015
    • Sold by: Barnes & Noble
    • Format: eBook
    • Pages: 240
    • File size: 4 MB


    Elias Castillo is a three-time Pulitzer Prize nominee and the winner of thirteen journalism awards. Born in Mexicali, Baja California, Castillo holds two degrees from San Jose State University and is a former reporter for the San Jose Mercury News and the Associated Press.

    Table of Contents

    Preface
    1) Conquest
    2) Servants of God
    3) The First Ones
    4) Friar Junipero Serra: The Beginning
    5) An Ordeal of Tears
    6) The Missions
    7) Mission Life
    8) A Vision Darkened
    9) Rebellion
    10) Epilogue
    Appendix
    Bibliography

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    Veteran journalist Elias Castillo has written a searing examination of the brutality and exploitation of the California mission system. "A Cross of Thorns" is brave, unsparing and ambitious, a tour de force that is one of the most significant contributions to this important topic. —Jon Talton, author of the David Mapstone Mysteries, the Cincinnati Casebooks and the thriller "Deadline Man"

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    California history readers: The primary audience for “A Cross of Thorns” is readers interested in the history of California. There is a broad audience for books on California history, including the numerous California history associations and museums.

    Western, and Native American history readers: There is a large consumer market for books history of Native Americans and the Old West. “A Cross of Thorns,” which deals with some of the most important events in Western and Native American hsitory, will be of great interest to this market.

    Political and social justice readers: California is a strong market for books on social justice issues, and many Californians are strongly sympathetic to indigenous peoples who suffered under European colonialism. “A Cross of Thorns,” with its emphasis on past and present injustice against native Californians, will be of strong interest to this group.

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    A Cross of Thorns challenges this mythologized history and presents the facts of the Spanish occupation of California, describing the dark and cruel reality of Mission life. Beginning in 1769, California Indians were en­ticed into the missions, where they and their descendents were imprisoned for 60 years of forced labor and daily beatings. The chilling depictions of colonial cruelty in A Cross of Thorns are based on little known church and Spanish government archives and letters written by the founder of California’s mission, Friar Junipero Serra (who advo­cated the whipping of Mission Indians as a standard policy), and published first-hand accounts of 18th and 19th century travelers.

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    From the Publisher
    Veteran journalist Elias Castillo has written a searing examination of the brutality and exploitation of the California mission system. "A Cross of Thorns" is brave, unsparing and ambitious, a tour de force that is one of the most significant contributions to this important topic. --Jon Talton, author of the David Mapstone Mysteries, the Cincinnati Casebooks and the thriller "Deadline Man"

    The saga of unholy injustice detailed in "A Cross of Thorns" left me feeling kicked in the gut, with my sense of moral outrage boiling over. Yet it is presented in subdued and sober terms, with fact after fact and story after story, building a sure case against the canonizing of Franciscan Friar Junipero Serra. Elias Castillo offers us a different reading of history and Spanish imperialism and the religious sins that accompanied it. --Matthew Fox

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