Give a summary of slavery in the Spanish colonies. Was slavery there more or less harsh than in British North American colonies? Why?
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- Spanish colonies: slavery was basic to the labor system; both the Church and crown raised doubts about slavery as a violation of Christian principles; Cuban sugar production-brutal slave system; character of slavery varied with local conditions
* New Mexico: Indian slaves taken to Mexican mines; enslavement led to Pueblo Revolt; Spanish more cautious in treatment of Christianized Pueblos after this revolt; captured "infidel Indians" used as house servants and fieldworkers
* Florida: benign form of slavery; more like African household slavery than harsher plantation slavery in Lower South; declared a refuge for escaped slaves from the Lower South; runaway slaves offered free land to defend the colony; communities established by refugee Indians and fugitive Africans; a quarter of African Americans in St. Augustine were free
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