Amarillo College

Spanish Colony Choice of 1503

Question #1

Maricella Davis HIST-1301-002 Dr. Jim Powell March 17/2015

As one of the first settlers of the New World Spanish colonies developing in the America’s; I have some hard decisions ahead of me. The first task at hand is to try to find someone to work in mining and agriculture on my land. Most of the indigenous people here have died leaving it hard to be productive. I have chosen to have European pheasants come and work for me. In the Spanish colonies the Europeans can still be treated humanely. This is a better option that African slaves who will be treated only as property. This choice that I have made could be beneficial to me as well as the peasants that are coming to work. There are thousands of Europeans that are going without and starving. When brought to work with me they will be treated fairly. The words of the Bible will also pertain to them and this is important to me. They will work long hard hours and endure harsh working environments until we can get our mining and agriculture flourishing. Their children will help, but will get education. They will not have to endure severe punishment for small mistakes like African slaves. As one of the first settlers in the Spanish colonies I have a choice. The most important thing to me is to show everyone that harsh slavery is not needed. That people are not Chattle and should never be treated as so. There was absolutely nothing at all that was positive here for the African slaves in the Spanish colonies in the 1500’s. You do have other options and the European peasants are an example of