Jesuit suppression in 1759 crippled Brazilian and Peruvian education

Evidence

By the time of the expulsion of the Jesuits from Brazil in 1759, their Brazilian libraries collectively owned 60,000 books, with Salvador da Bahia the largest library owning 15,000 items. The suppression of the order dealt a devastating blow to the Brazilian educational system, and indeed to that of Spanish Peru, where the Jesuits were also active. — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 376

Categorization

• corroborated: 2 independent passages support this claim — Andrew Pettegree, Arthur der Weduwen, The Library- A Fragile History, 376
• XREF: connects to: Slave-led Catholic worship helped get the Jesuits expelled in the 1760s.; The California mission system was colonialism’s most severe Catholic pedagogy — , The Rod and the Child: A Global History…, 4963