EVENT INFORMATION

20
Novèmber
1542

Spanish Crown promulgates the New Laws of the Indies

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📅 20 Novèmber 1542 📍

The New Laws sought to curb abuses against Indigenous peoples and restrict hereditary encomiendas, while also addressing Indigenous enslavement. Colonial elites resisted and enforcement was uneven. The laws did not dismantle colonial extraction; instead, the growing reliance on enslaved Africans became one part of a broader labor regime built through conquest and racial hierarchy.

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Personanan den e suseso aki

Charles I of Spain

Bartolomé de las Casas

Organisashonnan den e Evento aki

Spanish Crown

Council of the Indies