Encomienda

Word ENCOMIENDA
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Definitions and meanings of "Encomienda"

What do we mean by encomienda?

(history) A system in Spain and, later and more extensively, in Spanish colonies, in which the right to exploit the labour of certain groups of subject people (initially, Muslims, during the Reconquista) was granted to conquerors; servitude within this system.

(history) A permission to exploit labour within the encomienda system; an enterprise established to exploit such a permission.

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The word "encomienda" in example sentences

This experience launched Las Casas on his lifelong crusade against mistreatment of Indians, as exemplified by two institutions known as the encomienda and the repartimiento. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Indians who survived were enslaved under an economic system known as encomienda in which the conquistadors were authorized to occupy Indian lands, tax the inhabitants, and force them to perform labor. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

After the Spanish conquest, a system known as the encomienda was established in Mexico, with the objective of repartitioning the indigenous land and its inhabitants. ❋ Unknown (2005)

Indians as his heirs to a large portion of his possessions, namely his encomienda of Bigan. ❋ Antonio De Morga (1597)

However, kind words, kind looks, and the present of that inestimable treasure -- a knife, brought him to reason; and he told Amyas that he belonged to a Spaniard who had an "encomienda" of Indians some fifteen miles to the south-west; that he had fled from his master, and lived by hunting for some months past; and having seen the ship where she lay moored, and boarded her in hope of plunder, had been surprised therein by the Spaniards, and forced by threats to go with them as a guide in their search for the English. ❋ Charles Kingsley (1847)

A similar assessment of the Acalán encomienda in 1553 suggested about 4,000 Indians living in that province. ❋ Unknown (2009)

These were designed to ease the plight of Indians performing forced labor and were highly unpopular with the colonists because they undermined the encomienda system, whereby they received awards of lands and native workers. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Spanish had learned a few things from their unpleasant conquest of northern Mexico: The forts now would be built with high, palisaded walls; the encomienda was abandoned. ❋ S. C. Gwynne (2010)

The result of that meeting was promulgation of the Nuevas Leyes de 1542, which dealt a severe blow to the encomienda. ❋ Unknown (2008)

The Spanish Crown abolishes the system of encomienda, which had given Spanish land owners the right to forced Indian labour. ❋ Unknown (2008)

In any case, although the encomienda system continued into the 18th century, its importance in the overall economy of New Spain was short-lived. ❋ Unknown (2007)

For a time, he brought about the end of the encomienda (indigenous slave labor) system used by the Spanish. ❋ Unknown (2006)

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