America Submitted To Spanish Slavery

America submitted to Spanish slavery

Slavery was a method widely used by the great empires where affected individuals ceased to be free to be available to their master. This system was of great benefit for the economy of great empires such as Greece and Rome, as well as for the European continent especially for Spain. Spain made many navigations with the objective that when colonizing them extended their territory and in turn in the search for resources that help their colonies to prosper, thus finding the American continent. America a territory inhabited by our aborigines and in turn the existence of large extensions of flora and fauna.

October 12, 1942, the finding of America, 3 vessels led by Cristóbal Colon arrived. All of them were admired for having found an inhabited place and their inhabitants were called Indians. Those Indians were our indigenous people who decided to fight for their lands and peoples. The Spaniards benefited a lot, since they had very advanced tools and techniques unlike our indigenous people, their tools were of poor quality and including their techniques so unfortunately they were defeated. Among the conquered empires were: the Inca Empire, the Aztec Empire and the Chibcha Confederation. The Spaniards began to impose their authority, the natives were stripped of their assets and forced to work very cruelly. All our indigenous people were used as slaves in order to work in the mines, since from there they extracted precious metals very useful for the Spanish colonies.

The indigenous economy and politics disappeared and had to adapt to the new reforms. The workforce began to run out, since the indigenous people were dying little by little. According to Brazilian anthropologist Darcy Ribeiro stated that at the end of the 15th century, at the time the European conquerors arrived in America, there were approximately 70 million indigenous people. A century and a half later there were only about three and a half million.

In conclusion, slavery was based on the work of the indigenous so that the Spaniards increased their economy and also cost the life of many of them, the discovery of America was a massacre, many indigenous people died doing forced labor. In addition, they had to adapt to Spanish laws. The Spaniards took advantage of the indigenous knowledge taking all the precious metals that that place possessed and thus fulfilling its great objective, enlarging their colonies.