high school classes‚ Filipino students are generally taught that an encomienda was a piece of land given to a Spaniard for a certain period of time. Included on that land are the indios (natives) who were the original settlers. The receiver of the encomienda is called an encomendero. The encomendero had the right to exploit the natives for labor but without enslaving them. Unfortunately‚ it is hardly taught that an encomienda was a quid pro quo affair. What is hardly taught these days is that
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Bartolomé de las Casas‚ a former encomendero turned Dominican friar‚ was known as “one of the great abolitionists of Caribbean history”1. He dedicated a huge portion of his life trying to better the conditions of the people in the Indies. He devised a “radical plan”2 which would prove to be more contradictory than anything. Although Bartolomé de las Casas’ plans for the Indies seemed radical‚ they were actually made out to serve the crown’s desires while taking away the power of the conquistadors
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a statement made in the New Laws of the Indies‚ set by King Charles the First of Spain. During the time of exploration in Europe‚ in the New World‚ Spanish colonies were forcing the Native Americans to work on their farms. This was known as the Encomienda system. The Natives were treated horribly‚ and after hearing about the conditions‚ King Charles made a set of laws‚ known as the New Laws of 1542‚ that made it illegal to force the Natives to work. Many settlers did not agree with this. However
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Resettlement Patterns Spain and Portugal were the two superpowers who pushed through their ultimate goals to discover the rest of the world. These nations‚ with their greed for material wealth‚ set colonies in the Americas‚ Africa and East Asia to establish their powers to greater heights. Because of a high demand for exotic spices in Europe‚ Spain was forced to circumnavigate the world in search for the Spice Islands (Muruku Islands) with an ultimate goal which was to accumulate wealth through
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It also allowed the Spanish to demand labor from the Indians‚ which worked in their lands‚ gold mines and they also pay the encomenderos tribute (Martin‚ and Wasserman 93). This encomienda system was a symbolization of the indigenous people exploitation and oppression (Martin‚ and Wasserman 93). The encomenderos were in charge of the indigenous people‚ making them work hard in order to find the resources needed‚ and they even got
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natives. La Casa’s actions greatly influenced Spain to replace the Laws of Burgos with the The New Laws. The News Laws were to being fairer treatment of indians and provide them individual freedoms. In 1550 the repartimento system was replaced by the encomienda system allowing every native indian rights and freedoms in exchange for some labor. The Spanish established many missions across The Americas all in effort to spread catholicism. Mission supported the subsistence of settlers and natives alike
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The Spanish crown utilized the encomienda system during its conquests and colonization of the Americas as a way to compensate those who conquered native lands‚ thus a tool for expanding the Spanish Empire. The encomenderos‚ usually conquistadors‚ were granted control and responsibility of the peoples they conquered and were expected to convert them to Catholicism‚ teach them the Spanish language‚ and‚ often least importantly‚ protect them from enemy tribes. In return for this protection‚ the natives
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The encomienda system was a trusteeship labor system employed by the Spanish crown during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines in order to consolidate their conquests. Conquistadors were granted trusteeship over the indigenous people they conquered‚ in an expansion of familiar medieval feudal institutions‚ notably the commendation ceremony‚ which had been established in New Castile during the Reconquista. The encomiendo system differed from the developed form of feudalism
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“The history of the Caribbean is the history of the exploitation of labour” - with reference to slavery and the Encomienda labour system” In the above statement “the history of the Caribbean is the history of the exploitation of labour‚” it simply states that the Caribbean’s history is basically the history of its exploitation of labour. The definitions of keywords exploitation and labour must be considered. Exploitation can be defined as the practice of taking selfish or unfair advantage of a
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the way things were‚ they simply adopted and modified the Mit’a system. After the conquest of the Inca’s the Spanish also instituted a system called Encomienda. Though not technically slavery both were brutally oppressive systems under the Spanish. It is important to understand the fundamental difference between these two systems. The Encomienda system was where conquistadors were given rights over the native people they conquered. While technically the native people owned their land still‚
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