Sean Carroll's Mindscape: Science, Society, Philosophy, Culture, Arts, and Ideas
287 | Jean-Paul Faguet on Institutions and the Legacy of History
Jean-Paul Faguet
And this was seen as, you know, an exchange, right? I think I don't need to say anything more about that exchange. So this is what the word encomienda means. So the way in which the encomienda worked was that the Spanish Lord taught the indigenous people Catholicism and therefore gave them a chance to go to heaven. And they, in exchange, had to work for him.
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