Black Legend in Spanish

Black Legend in Spanish is Leyenda Negra, leyenda negra.

Black Legend in Spanish

Leyenda Negra

proper noun

(historiography) The depiction of Spain and Spaniards (or, by extension, all Hispanics and their countries of origin) as bloodthirsty and cruel, greedy and fanatical, especially concerning the colonial period from the sixteenth to the eighteenth century.

leyenda negra

noun

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