Name:__________________________________________ Date:__________ Period:_______ Unit 4: Labor Systems, 1450 - 1750 C.E. Encomienda Chattel Slavery Russian Serfdom ● Define the labor system ● Include the general role/purpose ● Were there revolts or rebellions associated with it? A grant of land made by Spain to a settler as an indentured servant in the Americas and Philippines, including the right to use Native Americans as laborers on it Absolute legal ownership of another person, including the right to buy or sell that person Bound to the lord on a hereditary basis, the peasant serf was little more than a slave Individual serfs and serf families were regularly sold, with and without land, in the early nineteenth century Sexual exploitation of female serfs by their lords was common What state/empire utilized this labor system? Feudal Spain The form of slavery utilized in the Americas during the trans-Atlantic slave trade Russian Empire When was this type of labor system abolished or when did it lose significance? Although the encomienda was not officially abolished until the late 18th century, in September 1721 the conferment of new Encomienda’s in Spain's colonies was prohibited The last country to officially abolish slavery was Mauritania in 1981 Serfdom had become the great moral and political issue for the government by the 1840's, but is still might have lasted many more years if it wasn't for the Crimean War (1853-1856) Inca Mita (both before and after colonization) Indentured Servitude ● Define the labor system ● Include the general role/purpose ● Were there revolts or rebellions associated with it? What state/empire utilized this labor system? When was this type of labor Before Spanish: An economic system in Inca society where people paid taxes with their labor and what they produced Hacienda A worker bound by a voluntary agreement to work for a specified period of years often in return for free passage to an overseas destination Before 1800 most were Europeans; after 1800 most, indentured laborers were Asians Spanish estates in the Americas that were often plantations The Spanish in Peru Europe and the American colonies The Americas The Cortes of Spain finally abolished the That status was finally ended in 1827 Continued into the 20th century After Spanish: Forced Incas to mine silver system abolished or when did it lose significance? Mita in 1812, but it survived at least into the nineteenth century A number of acts passed by both the American and the British governments fostered the decline of indentures Annotate the map below with the areas in which each of the coercive labor systems were utilized in the 1450-1750 time period. KEY ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ ❏ Encomienda Hacienda Chattel Slavery Inca Mita System Indentured Servitude

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