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  2. Foot binding - Wikipedia

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    Foot binding was common when women could do light industry, but where women were required to do heavy farm work they often did not bind their feet because it hindered physical work. These scholars argued that the coming of the mechanized industry at the end of the 19th century and the beginning of the 20th century, such as the introduction of ...

  3. Slavery in colonial Spanish America - Wikipedia

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    This shift consolidated labor in a process known as reducciones, and replaced encomienda with "two parallel yet separate 'republics'": [59] the república de españoles "included Spaniards, who lived in Spanish cities and obeyed Spanish law"; and the república de indios "included natives, who resided in native communities, where native law and ...

  4. Spanish colonization of the Americas - Wikipedia

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    Spanish men and women settled in greatest numbers where there were dense indigenous populations and the existence of valuable resources for extraction. [1] The Spanish Empire claimed jurisdiction over the New World in the Caribbean and North and South America, with the exception of Brazil, ceded to Portugal by the Treaty of Tordesillas. Other ...

  5. History of Hispanic and Latino Americans in the United States

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    In 1821 at the end of the Mexican War of Independence, there were about 4,000 Tejanos living in what is now the state of Texas alongside a lesser number of immigrants. In the 1820s many settlers from the United States and other nations moved to Texas from the United States. By 1830, the 30,000 settlers in Texas outnumbered the Tejanos six to one.

  6. European enslavement of Indigenous Americans - Wikipedia

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    The royal anti-slavery crusade did not end the enslavement of Indigenous people in Spain's American possessions, but, in addition to resulting in the freeing of thousands of enslaved people, it ended the involvement and facilitation by government officials of enslaving by the Spanish; purchase of slaves remained possible but only from ...

  7. History of Latin America - Wikipedia

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    The idea that a part of the Americas has a cultural or racial affinity with all Romance cultures can be traced back to the 1830s, in particular in the writing of the French Saint-Simonian Michel Chevalier, who postulated that this part of the Americas were inhabited by people of a "Latin race," and that it could, therefore, ally itself with "Latin Europe" in a struggle with "Teutonic Europe ...

  8. Heavenly Foot Society - Wikipedia

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    Heavenly Foot Society, was a Chinese organization against foot binding, founded in 1874. It was the first organization against foot binding in China. It was founded by John Macgowan and his wife, missionaries from the London Missionary Society. It was followed by other Western Christian missionary societies, who incorporated the work against ...

  9. Patria Grande - Wikipedia

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    Basic "Patria Grande" with Spanish speaking countries. The Patria Grande ( Spanish pronunciation: [ˈpatɾja ˈɣɾande] , Spanish : "Great Fatherland" or "Great Homeland") is the concept of a shared homeland or community encompassing all of Spanish America , and sometimes all of Latin America and the Caribbean .