A History of Latin America
124 CHAPTER 6 COLONIAL BRAZIL attract settlers and defend their captaincies against indigenous attacks and foreign intruders. On ...
THE BEGINNING OF COLONIAL BRAZIL 125 slave hunters continued to fi nd a market for their wares throughout the colonial period. T ...
126 CHAPTER 6 COLONIAL BRAZIL and black slaves. Yet there can be no doubt that the condition of natives in the Jesuit mission vi ...
THE BEGINNING OF COLONIAL BRAZIL 127 Janeiro, accompanied by their slaves and servants, swarmed into the mining area. Their exod ...
128 CHAPTER 6 COLONIAL BRAZIL defense against Spanish expansionist designs. Here too vast land grants were made. The counterpart ...
GOVERNMENT AND CHURCH 129 expanded, new captaincies were created. In 1763, as previously noted, the governor of Rio de Janeiro r ...
130 CHAPTER 6 COLONIAL BRAZIL population was tithes, which came to 10 percent of the total product, originally payable in kind b ...
MASTERS AND SLAVES 131 activities. Many were planters; others carried on a variety of businesses. One high-ranking crown offi - ...
132 CHAPTER 6 COLONIAL BRAZIL the hours were not so long, but “discipline was maintained with a severity that often degenerated ...
MASTERS AND SLAVES 133 low rate of reproduction among slaves and frequent suicides speak volumes concerning their condition. Man ...
134 CHAPTER 6 COLONIAL BRAZIL and blood. In the cattle-raising regions of the sertão and the south, the small number of slaves, ...
135 7 The Bourbon Reforms and Spanish America T HE DEATH OF the sickly Charles II in No- vember 1700 marked the end of an er ...
136 CHAPTER 7 THE BOURBON REFORMS AND SPANISH AMERICA and ensuing revival of Spain are associated with three princes of the Hous ...
REFORM AND RECOVERY 137 to trade more freely with the non-Spanish world. On the contrary, the Bourbons centralized colonial admi ...
138 CHAPTER 7 THE BOURBON REFORMS AND SPANISH AMERICA in a report made to Charles III by a royal commis- sion in 1765. The shock ...
REFORM AND RECOVERY 139 crops for local markets, notably wheat, which the European population preferred over maize. Tithe collec ...
140 CHAPTER 7 THE BOURBON REFORMS AND SPANISH AMERICA The eighteenth century also saw a marked re- vival of silver mining in the ...
REFORM AND RECOVERY 141 Although Spain adopted mercantilist legisla- tion designed to restrict colonial manufacturing— especiall ...
142 CHAPTER 7 THE BOURBON REFORMS AND SPANISH AMERICA work. On Jesuit farms in eighteenth-century Quito (Ecuador), says Nicholas ...
REFORM AND RECOVERY 143 conscripted from the surrounding indigenous vil- lages through a repartimiento, or labor draft. Press ga ...
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