Spanish Labor Systems And Indi

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stories, and other
documents these books present accounts that tell about the
labor system used in this area. They tell of the Spanish
labor systems such as the encomiendos and later
rapartamientos and how these operations were run. In
discussing the Labor system that existed during the time of
Spanish rule it is important to understand what labor
systems that were used, why the Spanish used them, how they
justified using indigenous people in such a way, how the
indigenous as well as black slaves were treated in these
systems, and the effects the Labor Systems had on the
indigenous population.
As soon as the first Spanish entradas arrived in the
New World they realized the vast resources that had been
virtually untapped. They saw incredible wealth in the sugar
cane crops and the wood dyes in Brazil, and the silver mines
in Potosi and other northern areas, plus many other raw
resources. At first the Labor systems were very
underdeveloped in Colonial ...

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Labor Systems like the
tribute and work project systems to get the native people to
work their haciendas and to build their churches, homes, and
cities. According to The Limits of Racial Domination the
Spanish believed as long as “the Indians exist, the Indies
will exist.” The Spanish new that they could live well as
long as they exploited the indigenous people they would live
well. In fact it is quoted in The Limits of Racial
Domination that “In the sixteenth century, the white
community lived on the surplus produced by a vast number of
Indians working in a very primitive economic system...”
Then by the next century they had changed the economy to ...

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