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  2. Repartimiento - Wikipedia

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    With the New Laws of 1542, the repartimiento was instated to substitute the encomienda system that had come to be seen as abusive and promoting of unethical behavior. The Spanish Crown aimed to remove control of the indigenous population, now considered subjects of the Crown, from the hands of the encomenderos, who had become a politically influential and wealthy class, with the shift away ...

  3. Slavery in colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    [6] [154] The Spanish Monarchy had, in 1672, officially granted Asians the status of free vassals to the king, analogous to that of the indigenous people born in the Spanish Empire. [155] Social attitudes to the Chinese were also more positive than to Africans in Spanish America, and now Peru, but the law tended to favor employers in disputes ...

  4. Slavery in Spain - Wikipedia

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    Spanish slaves who converted to Christianity were often treated less harshly, and had better opportunities to gain freedom. [20] As Christianity was the dominant faith in Spain, it was considered respectful for slaves to adopt this religion as their own and abandon their former religious beliefs.

  5. Protector of the Indians - Wikipedia

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    Portrait of Bartolomé de Las Casas (c.1484 - 1566). Protector of the Indians (Spanish: Protectoría de Los Indios) was an administrative office of the Spanish colonies that deemed themselves responsible for attending to the well-being of the native populations by providing detailed witness accounts of mistreatment in an attempt to relay their struggles and a voice speaking on their behalf in ...

  6. Genocide of indigenous peoples - Wikipedia

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    It is also apparent that the shared history of the hemisphere is one which is framed by the dual tragedies of genocide and slavery, both of which are part of the legacy of the European invasions of the past 500 years. Indigenous people both north and south were displaced, died of disease, and were killed by Europeans through slavery, rape, and ...

  7. European enslavement of Indigenous Americans - Wikipedia

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    Under this system, private Spanish colonizers (encomenderos) were granted the right to the labor of groups of non-Christian Indigenous people. [21] Although based on similar grants given during the Reconquista in Spain, in the Caribbean the system quickly became indistinguishable from the slavery it replaced [ 5 ] By 1508, the original Taíno ...

  8. New Laws - Wikipedia

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    The laws prohibited using indigenous people to work in the mines (where many had died) unless it was absolutely necessary, and then under the same working conditions as Spanish mine workers. Indians were to be taxed fairly and treated well. Public officials or clergy with encomienda grants were ordered to return them immediately to the Crown.

  9. Anti-Spanish sentiment - Wikipedia

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    Anti-Spanish sentiment is the fear, distrust, hatred of, aversion to, or discrimination against Spanish people, culture, or nationhood.. Instances of anti-Spanish prejudice, often embedded within anti-Catholic prejudice and propaganda, were stoked in Europe in the early modern period, pursuant to the Spanish Crown's status as a power siding with the Counter-Reformation.