Question

What does this image reveal about the lives of Native people under the encomienda system?

In what ways were women uniquely vulnerable to the abuses of the encomienda system?

Why were images like this circulated in Spain? What was the outcome of the campaign to end the encomienda system?

Answer 1

Answer: Native Peoples are forced to engage in hard and subjected to torture, extreme abuse, and, in some cases, death if they resist.

It swiftly led to abuses: Encomenderos made unreasonable demands of the native Peruvians who lived on their lands, working them excessively or demanding tribute of crops that could not be grown on the land.

The encomienda system was ended legally in 1720, when the crown attempted to abolish the institution.

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