- As the plantation economy increased, so too did demand forcoerced labor.- A feudal-like labor system that used forced labor was established bythe Spanish in the New World to ensure a cheap labor supply.- This was the grant of natives to an encomendero, a Spanish landowner.- In exchange for this labor supply, the encomendero was responsible for safeguarding the natives' health and safety, as well as encouraging their conversion to Catholicism.- Natives were treated harshly and were so overworked that the Spanish eventually had to import slaves from Africa to replace the diminishing native labor supply.

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