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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The New Laws of 1542 ended all colonial forced labor in practice.
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The reforms were resisted and unevenly enforced, and colonial extraction persisted.