HIST 380 Lecture Notes - Lecture 18: Encomienda, New Laws, Mocambos
1 Dec 2018
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Brazil"s backcountry was dynamic and violent in the middle period. Spaniards often provoked native settlements and then punished them in retaliation. Spanish priests, soldiers and settlers exploited native workers in forts and missions. Native villagers sometimes voluntarily exchanged services and food for protection. Spanish settlers created a hybrid institution called the encomienda- mitaya. Guaran men engaged in rotational farming, timbering, livestock-raising, and mining. There were many more guaran people than spaniards, and pure. Guaran language became the norm in culture. The jesuits in the area prospered by using the guaran language as well as selling yerba mat . Bandeirantes were slave raiders who raided native towns for people to sell. In places like s o paulo, indigenous slavery was the main form of slavery. Natives continued to be traded, even after the habsburg king philip. Native labor was also common through quasi-serfdom of the encomienda, draft labor, or debt drafts.
