8. What replaced the Encomienda System? It was gradually replaced by African slave labor because Africans were more immune to European diseases than Natives.

Nevertheless, the “encomienda” system was generally replaced by the crown-managed “repartimiento” system throughout Spanish America after mid-century. Like the “encomienda”, the new “repartimento” did not include the attribution of land to anyone, rather only the allotment of native workers.

3 type of Encomienda exist:

• The Royal Encomiendas, belonging to the King,
• the Ecclesiastical Encomiendas, belonging to the Church,
• Privado belonging to private individuals.

Sentences Mobile The system of government that the Spaniards established was the encomienda. For his actions, he was awarded an encomienda at Xaltepec. The encomienda was more of a grant of jurisdiction than ownership. He spent several years in retirement on his encomienda in Chuquiago.

As legally defined in 1503, an encomienda (from Spanish encomendar, “to entrust”) consisted of a grant by the crown to a conquistador, a soldier, an official, or others of a specified number of “Indios” (Native Americans and, later, Filipinos) living in a particular area.

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Translation for word Encomienda in Tagalog is : dokumentasyon.

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What was the goal and purpose of the Encomienda system and why didn’t it work? The goal was to enslave Native Americans and the purpose was to use the slaves as a labor source. It didn’t work because the Native Americans knew the land and could escape easily. they also were not immune to the diseases and died.

The encomienda system was generally replaced by the crown-managed repartimiento system throughout Spanish America after mid-sixteenth century.

Cause & Effect: The cause of the Encomienda system was the Spanish crown offering land and Indian slaves to conquistadors going to the new world. The effect was heavy depopulation of Indians from brutality and disease leading into African slaves becoming a new labor force. You just studied 15 terms!

In return, encomenderos were obliged to provide for the protection, education, and religious welfare of Indians. Vacated or expired encomiendas were either reassigned or placed under the control of Crown officials as corregimientos with tribute paid to the Crown.

The encomienda system (in theory) was a feudal-like system where Spaniards would offer protection and education to the native populations in exchange for labor and money/gifts. In reality, the encomienda system was a horrible abuse of power and essentially slavery.

The end of the encomienda system led to the Catholics/Spaniards stop using Native Americans for labor and instead using African slaves. Spain’s American colonies helped make it the richest, most powerful nation in the 16th century.

Why did African slavery replace Native American slavery on the Encomienda System? Americans had home field advantage, British supplies was far away, strong motivation to fight, and George Washington.

What happened as the Encomienda system declined? The trafficking of enslaved persons from West Africa increased. The indigenous cultures re-emerged and the New World became a Native American paradise. Forced labor was discontinued and people were able to work freely for fair wages in safe and humane conditions.

Many landowners also felt threatened by newly freed servants demand for land. The colonial elite realized the problems of indentured servitude. Landowners turned to African slaves as a more profitable and ever-renewable source of labor and the shift from indentured servants to racial slavery had begun.

Indentured servitude refers to a contract between two individuals, in which one person worked not for money but to repay an indenture, or loan, within a set time period. Indentured servitude was not slavery as individuals entered contracts of their own free will.

Indentured servitude differed from slavery in that it was a form of debt bondage, meaning it was an agreed upon term of unpaid labor that usually paid off the costs of the servant’s immigration to America. Indentured servants were not paid wages but they were generally housed, clothed, and fed.

First enslaved Africans arrive in Jamestown, setting the stage for slavery in North America. On August 20, 1619, “20 and odd” Angolans, kidnapped by the Portuguese, arrive in the British colony of Virginia and are then bought by English colonists.

Although African slavery was not a benign institution, slaves in Africa were used in a wider variety of ways than in the New World: they were employed as agricultural workers, soldiers, servants, and officials.

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However, many consider a significant starting point to slavery in America to be 1619, when the privateer The White Lion brought 20 African slaves ashore in the British colony of Jamestown, Virginia.

The first documented arrival of Africans to the colony of Virginia was recorded by John Rolfe: “About the latter end of August, a Dutch man of Warr of the burden of a 160 tunes arrived at Point-Comfort, the Comandors name Capt Jope, his Pilott for the West Indies one Mr Marmaduke an Englishman. …

Enslavers ambushed and captured local people in Africa. Most slave ships used British ‘factors’, men who lived full-time in Africa and bought enslaved people from local leaders. Enslaved peoples might have been captured during warfare or raids on their homes.

Myth One: The majority of African captives came to what became the United States. Truth: Only a little more than 300,000 captives, or 4-6 percent, came to the United States. The majority of enslaved Africans went to Brazil, followed by the Caribbean.

Most slaves in Africa were captured in wars or in surprise raids on villages. Adults were bound and gagged and infants were sometimes thrown into sacks.

On reaching the Americas the crew of slave ships prepared the Africans for sale. They washed, shaved and rubbed them with palm oil to disguise sores and wounds caused by conditions on board. The captains usually sold their captives directly to planters or specialised wholesalers by auction.