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Servitude of * s not t ^ 0 ^ e w ' 10 are fubdud, and caird 



thofe who are Tanaconas ; thefe being Tributaries to the King of Spain, 

 fubdttd. t0 whom they pay the Value of ten Pieces of Eight 

 yearly, either in Silver or Commodities : And they are alfo 

 employ'd in the Service of the Spanijh Families, to whom 

 his Catholick Majefty, either as a Reward for their brave 

 A&ions, or Service, or for Money, grants a Number of 

 Indian?, who are obliged to attend them as Servants, and 

 not as Slaves ; for, befides their Diet, they are to pay them 

 3 o Crowns a Year ; and if they will not ferve, they are 

 free from it upon paying their Mafter ten Crowns, which 

 is call*d JLncomienda. Their Age to ferve is from 1 6 to 50; 

 above and under they are exempt from it : Befides, the 

 Indians thus given in commendam, the Spaniards in Chili on- 

 ly have fome in their Service who are Slaves, bought of 

 the free Indians, who freely fell them their Children for 

 Wine, Arms, Utenfils, &c. This being an Abufe con- 

 nived at, contrary to the King's Ordinances, they are not 

 Slaves like the Blacks ; thofe who buy, cannot fell them 

 again, unlefs it be privately, and with the Slave's Confent, 

 who, by means of a Letter, call'd De Amparo, that is, of 

 Prote&ion, may demand his Liberty. To this end, there 

 is in every Town, and in the Court at Santiago, a Pro- 

 testor of the Indians, to whom they make Application. 



By reafon alfo of the Toleration or Connivance, the 

 Sons of Slaves do not follow the Fate of the Mother, as is 

 ordain'd in Jufiinian's Inftitutes, when the Father is a Ser- 

 vant in Commendam t, becaufe the latter being permitted, 

 the Advantage is to accrue to him preferable to the other. 

 The Mixture of Spanijh Blood makes thofe free whom the 

 Father will own; and entitles the Meftices, that is, the 

 Sons of a Spaniard and an Indian Woman , to wear 

 Linnen. 



To know the Original of this fort of Slavery, we muft 

 look back to the Conqueft of Peru. The private Perfons 

 who are the firft Authors, ought, by their Contract with 

 the King of Spain % to have the Indians as Slaves during 



their 



