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The encomienda system was generally replaced by the crown-managed repartimiento system throughout Spanish America after mid-sixteenth century. [8] Like the encomienda, the new repartimiento did not include the attribution of land to anyone, rather only the allotment of native workers. But they were directly allotted to the Crown, who, through a ...
In Peru and New Spain, the encomienda institution lasted much longer. [61] In Chiloé Archipelago in southern Chile, where the abuse of encomienda had led to the Huilliche uprising of 1712, the encomienda was only abolished in 1782. [62] In the rest of Chile it was abolished in 1789, and in the whole Spanish empire in 1791. [62] [63] [64] [65]
Acasaguastlán given in encomienda to Diego Salvatierra El Progreso 1526: Spanish captains sent by Alvarado conquer Chiquimula Chiquimula 9 February 1526: Spanish deserters burn Iximche Chimaltenango 1527: Spanish abandon their capital at Tecpán Guatemala Chimaltenango 1529: San Mateo Ixtatán given in encomienda to Gonzalo de Ovalle Huehuetenango
Slavery in Latin America was an economic and social institution that existed in Latin America before the colonial era until its legal abolition in the newly independent states during the 19th century. [1]
Abolition of domestic slavery practised by local African elites. [178] Although established as a place for freed slaves, a study found practices of domestic slavery still widespread in rural areas in the 1970s. [citation needed] Alabama: Convict lease abolished, the last state in the Union to do so. 1929 Persia: Slavery abolished and ...
The labor system of Encomienda was also abolished in 1550. [3] However these laws did not end the practice of slavery or forced labor immediately and a new system began to be used repartimiento and mita in Peru. Eventually this system too was abolished due to abuses. [3]
The introduction and corruption of the encomienda system is now considered to have been an alternative for outright slavery and a Castilian institution that did not work properly in America. The encomienda was a system that interchanged a person's work for military protection by a higher authority. It had been part of the Castilian legal system ...
The encomienda had, in fact, legally been abolished in 1523, but it had been reinstituted in 1526, and in 1530 a general ordinance against slavery was reversed by the Crown. For this reason it was a pressing matter for Bartolomé de las Casas to plead once again for the Indians with Charles V who was by now Holy Roman Emperor and no longer a ...