Spanish Labor Systems

In the United States it is often said that African Americans are treated poorly in the early stages of their country's history. I heard a story about a story that a black man picked cotton within 18 hours and a slave being beaten because he broke the owner. For many African Americans, this seems to be a long way ago. It is important to understand what these African Americans are experiencing but it is often forgotten that indigenous peoples of Latin America are being exploited in a similar way, but through different labor systems think.

Encomienda (pronunciation in Spanish :) is a Spanish labor system. It rewards conquistadors through labor of a particular subject group. Originally founded in Roman times in Spain, it was used even after Christians conquered Muslim territory. It was used extensively during the Spanish colonization of the US and the Philippines. The conquered people are considered to be the vassals of the Spanish princes. Official grant by environmental protection groups as subsidies for specific individuals. In the age of conquest of the 16th century, the grant was regarded as the monopoly of the labor of a particular Indian group (indigenous group) that was held by the owner as "disciple" and its descendants.

In order to reward the Spaniards who participated in the conquest of Mexico, the Spanish royal family acknowledged the distribution of all local workers to workers, in particular through the Encomienda system. Indigenous peoples are not slaves under this system, while moving people buy and sell their family community, this system is still forced labor. The Spanish encomienda system is based on existing labor patterns, as indigenous customs in central Mexico represent labor and respect for their political elite, and to provide elite products to Lord Mexican in Tenocuttlan .