- published: 02 Jun 2015
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The encomienda (Spanish pronunciation: [eŋkoˈmjenda]) was a legal system that was employed mainly by the Spanish crown during the colonization of the Americas to regulate Native American labor.
In the encomienda, the Spanish crown granted a person a specified number of natives for whom they were to take responsibility. In theory, the receiver of the grant was to protect the natives from warring tribes and to instruct them in the Spanish language and in the Catholic faith: in return they could extract tribute from the natives in the form of labor, gold or other products. In practice, the difference between encomienda and slavery could be minimal. Many natives were forced to do hard labor and subjected to extreme punishment and death if they resisted.
In the former Inca Empire, for example, the system continued the Incaic (and even pre-Incaic) traditions of extracting tribute under the form of labor.
Sustainable culture after so long dies.
We will have the world and no price can be too high.
A fitting introduction to the black book of life;
there's a glint in our eyes and poison in your wine.
Here's salvation for your freedom, Christ for your time.
Take heart we heal the soul and give you worth before you die.
Give as you receive - production for eternity
and I see we're just in time 'cause your body's failing quickly.
From us to you, welcome to hell on earth.
We don't need empty thanks for what we're bringing to you.
We save. They die. We never go away.
Our ethnocentric impulses lead to genocidal consequences.
Our faith dictates and we obey: we save and they die.