HA 392 Lecture Notes - Lecture 5: New Latin, Debt Bondage
13 Oct 2015
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Cabildos followed the hereditary traditions of their ancestors the chiefs of resguardos. In the northern states, the creoles had more success in dissolving the resguardos. They wanted to put resguardo lands on the market eventually ended being owned by creoles: chibchas (indigenous in the north) ended up selling their land to creoles and moving to the city. They had no contacts and no marketable skills, and were therefore automatically poor: discovery of quinine in the south-western states drew creoles to paez and pasto lands, at this point, the indigenous people were lead by various strongmen. Land considered by the indigenous to be theirs was taken by the creoles. Chibchas to take advantage of this law, but preserved indigenous land in the south- west. Ecuador: at least 50% of the population was indigenous, very small african population, tax imposed on the indigenous was a large source of revenue. Debt peonage indigenous were indebted to and worked for: huasipungaje landowners.
