repartimiento

This experience launched Las Casas on his lifelong crusade against mistreatment of Indians, as exemplified by two institutions known as the encomienda and the repartimiento.

Bartolome de las Casas: father of liberation theology 2008

This experience launched Las Casas on his lifelong crusade against mistreatment of Indians, as exemplified by two institutions known as the encomienda and the repartimiento.

Bartolome de las Casas: father of liberation theology 2008

Throughout the Spanish domains—especially in the Caribbean and coastal areas—sugar plantations and mills evolved on the basis of slave labor, while haciendas used forced Indian labor (mita in Peru and repartimiento in New Spain) and resorted to debt peonage to retain workers.

d. Economic Conditions 2001

Peasants felt particularly aggrieved by forced sales of goods (repartimiento de mercancías).

f. Insurrections 2001

The repartimiento-encomienda, which developed early on, was an institution of great political, social, and economic importance.

b. Administration 2001

Upon Pedro de la Renteria, the Governor conferred a repartimiento of lands and Indians adjoining the one given to Las Casas and the two had their business interests in common.

Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

Casas received a valuable repartimiento of land and Indians in recognition of the services he had rendered during the expeditions, for, though he was the enemy of all cruel treatment and the protector of the natives against his callous-hearted countrymen, his conscience on the subject of repartimientos was not yet fully awakened.

Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

The system of giving the Indians in encomienda and repartimiento is absolutely contrary to the royal commands issued by Queen Isabella to Columbus and his successors during her reign.

Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt

Your Majesty honoured Don Cristóval Paullu with titles and granted him a good _repartimiento_ of Indians, on which he principally lived.

History of the Incas Pedro Sarmiento de Gamboa

This chief had been educated in the Franciscan convent at Vera Paz and was a man of unusual intelligence and superior courage; he married a beautiful Indian girl of good lineage and, with the Indians under his rule, was assigned in repartimiento to a Spaniard named Valenzuela, who began by robbing him of a valuable mare and ended by taking from him his wife.

Bartholomew de Las Casas; his life, apostolate, and writings Francis Augustus MacNutt