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Some surviving Spanish conquistadors settled on encomiendas, where local people farmed for them under a system resembling peonage or serfdom.
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“The ones who were lucky were good.”
“live long enough to settle down on what were called encomiendas, that's local states with many of the local peoples to farm the land for them kind of peon serfdom.”Play from 58:48Report a misattribution
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