The encomienda of Maragondon, with four hundred and fifty men. |
He served as chaplain in the conquest of Cuba, and received a second encomienda. |
He himself renounced possession of his own encomienda, where he had used the forced labor of Indians to prosper as a planter. |
Your Majesty has commanded that no offices or places of profit shall be given to those who hold Indians in encomienda. |
The said encomienda is instructed and visited with difficulty. |
The new encomienda began to function with fifty farmers from Castilla, chosen by Las Casas himself. |