Expoliation, ill-treatment and diseases: problematic aspects that led to the regulation of labor in the Laws of the Indies

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This article makes an approach to the legal system that regulated labor relations in the colonial era. Its structure has the following guiding thread: debate about the so-called black legend, in which the devastating consequences of the conquest are elucidated and the result of a labor system constituted by a hybrid between slavery and feudalism. These aspects led to the creation of norms related to the protection of the physical integrity of the indigenous people, violated as a result of the illnesses that they contracted due to lack of health and the ill-treatment they received in the sementeras and in the mines.
En este artículo se realiza una aproximación al ordenamiento jurídico que reguló las relaciones laborales en la época colonial. Su estructura tiene el siguiente hilo conductor: debate sobre la denominada leyenda negra, en el que se elucida las consecuencias devastadoras de la conquista y el resultado de un sistema laboral constituido por un hibrido entre el esclavismo y el feudalismo. Esos aspectos dieron lugar a la creación de normas relacionadas con la protección de la integridad física de los indígenas, vulnerada a raíz de las enfermedades que contraían por falta de salubridad y los malos tratos que recibían en las sementeras y en las minas.

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