FIRST CONTACTS 28000 BCE 1821 CE
SPANISH COLONIES
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a hacienda is a resort (like a hotel) and a plantation has slaves and crops
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Spanish ranchers set up haciendas and Spanish soldiers did most of the work on the plantations in exchange for gold and silver
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Plantations were large farms with many slaves and haciendas were large estates that raised mostly sheep and cattle
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Bartolome de la Casas discovered haciendas and plantations were only run by King Phillip 2nd
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Detailed explanation-1: -Wolf’s (1955) article on ‘Types of Latin American peasantries’ suggested that ‘haciendas’ were associated with ‘highland’ peasantries living in corporate communities, while ‘plantations’ were associated with ‘lowland’ peasan-tries who lived in ‘open’ communities and produced cash crops for market.
Detailed explanation-2: -’Haciendas’ is a term that refers to large estates spread over thousands of acres of land. Some of these Haciendas contained silver and copper mines, agricultural lands, pastures and factories, where slaves were made to work.
Detailed explanation-3: -In haciendas, the workers were not classified as slaves, yet their employment would certainly be called ‘forced labour’ in today’s terms. Along with land grants, patrons would be allotted a certain number of ‘natives’, who would learn Spanish and be converted to Catholicism in return for their labour on the land.
Detailed explanation-4: -Spain developed labor systems that gave large pieces of land to settlers in the Americas. The encomienda system granted Spanish explorers and military land and labor from the indigenous people. The Spanish natives in debt were forced to work on large plantations called haciendas.