The proto-sugar industry: in the development of Colonial Rule in America

Abstract

Abstract The present research allows us to understand at length the social and industrial structure; the technological state of the art at a sugar mill of the novohispano colonial period and the different qualifications and specializations of the workforce from the plantation to the batey. The stereotypes landowners attributed to the indigenous population, in extremes of beauty or ugliness, as well as their regard of indigenous labor, are of special interest. The advisors of the Spanish monarchy regard the native population as source of income and considerable expenditure savings, as it was not subject of tuition in European culture, for example. The current analysis also opens up spaces for studying the role of women, taking into account that its dependent characterization in scholastic education.