Category: Encomienda

• The Encomienda

  

  A New System for the New World The Encomienda system was established during the second voyage of Columbus to help facilitate mining and other needs. The term comes from the spanish word for “to entrust” and was essentially slavery with extra steps. Although they would never call it slavery because again the queen did not…

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  July 6, 2022

  Age of Exploration, Christopher Columbus, Colonization, Encomienda, Indigenous People, Pre-American History