USA HISTORY

Detailed explanation-1: -The encomienda was a system where Spanish adventurers and settlers were granted the legal right to extract forced labour from indigenous tribal chiefs in the Americas colonies of the Spanish Empire.

Detailed explanation-2: -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.

Detailed explanation-3: -Encomienda (roughly translated: trustee) was a formal system of forced labor in Spanish colonies in Latin America and the Philippines, intended to encourage conquest and colonization.

Detailed explanation-4: -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-5: -The encomienda system was a Spanish labor system in which the Spanish monarch awarded Spaniards with the labor of non-Christian people. It was different from other communal slavery systems in the early modern world because it was sharply focused on labor, not land or natural resources.