USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -Encomienda was a Spanish labor system. It was applied on a much larger scale during the Spanish colonization of the Americas and the Philippines. Under this system, labors were traded for specific work in plantations, ranches, and mining.

Detailed explanation-2: -The encomienda (Spanish pronunciation: [eŋkoˈmjenda] ( listen)) was a Spanish slave labour system that rewarded conquerors with the labour of conquered non-Christian peoples. The labourers, in theory, were provided with benefits by the conquerors for whom they laboured, including military protection and education.

Detailed explanation-3: -The encomienda system is a labor system established by the Spanish Crown in the 1500s. This new system rewarded Spanish explorers, conquistadors, and military men with land in the New World. But they didn’t just get the land, they got the labor of the people living on the land as well.

Detailed explanation-4: -Since its establishment in 1512, the encomienda system was under scrutiny. On the island of Hispaniola (present-day Haiti and the Dominican Republic), where the system was especially prevalent and harsh, priest Bartolomé de las Casas protested the institution of encomienda.

Detailed explanation-5: -This system was fundamental to the economics of early Spanish colonialism. The Spanish Crown envisioned encomienda as a system of mutual obligations between indigenous people and colonists. Indigenous people would provide limited tribute and labor, and colonists would provide religious and cultural instruction.