colonization of indigenous peoples
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The Conquest and Colonization of Indigenous
Peoples
Cristóbal Colón“Portrait of a Man said to be Columbus” (1519) by Sebastiano del Piombo
Columbus Travels
Letter to Luis de Santángel (1493)
“First Images of America: Castles in Hispaniola”
Woodcut from Columbus letter of 1493
Columbus at Hispaniola (1493)
Woodcut (Basel, Switzerland)
The Indigenous peoples:
The benefits of Colonization
“no tienen hierro ni acero ni armas . . . son muy temorosos a maravilla”
“se harán cristianos, que se inclinan al amor y al servicio de Sus Altezas…”
“nos dar de las cosas que [t]ienen en abundancia”
The benefits of Colonization
“es el lugar más convenible y mejor comarca para las minas de oro”
“tornándose tantos pueblos a nuestra santa fe”
“todos los critstianos tendrán aquí refrigerio y ganacia”
“The Return of Christopher Columbus” (1839) by Eugene Delacroix
Portrait of Hernán Cortés (17th century) Museo Nacional del Virreinato (Mexico)
Economic organization
Indian labor:-Decline in population-Royal Laws to protect the Indigenous peoples (1530, 1534, 1542)
Black labor: from 1518
The Casta System
1. Peninsulares
2. Creoles
3. Mestizos
4. Mulattoes and Free Black Peoples
5. Indigenous Peoples
6. Black Slaves
Castas painting, Mexico, 18th century,unknown author,Museo Nacional del Virreinato
“Allegory of Spanish and Indigenous Authorities” (1809) in Mexico.by Patricio Suarez de Peredo