re: #169 EmmmieG

We’re both right.

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Well, “conversos” were not neccessarily “secret jews” but simply converts, and “conversos” was not originally an insult, like “marranos”. Only over time, crypto-judaism (which did exist) was so feared that pretty much anyone with “converso” heritage was suspected of being a “secret jew”.

Read Edward Kritzler’s Jewish Pirates of the Caribbean: How a Generation of Swashbuckling Jews Carved Out an Empire in the New World in Their Quest for Treasure, Religious Freedom—and Revenge last year, so this is still ingrained.