South America On the Eve of Emancipation; the Southern Spanish Colonies in the Last Half-Century of Their Dependence
South America On the Eve of Emancipation; the Southern Spanish Colonies in the Last Half-Century of Their Dependence
Bernard Moses
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But the fitness of the soil and climate for agriculture made this branch of production important; and its development was limited only by the demand for the products. The early tendency to distribute the lands among many proprietors was checked later, and a large number of the estates fell into the hands of the religious orders. The Jesuits became the owners of about seventy estates, some of them as large as a modem province. 240 The Eve of Emancipation Those that remained in private hands were... con- tinued from generation to generation in the same family. This direct descent was furthered by the law upholding primogeniture. There were, however, no estates to which this procedure had been applied prior to the middle of the seven- teenth century. In the eighteenth century they were more numerous than at any other time, but at the end of the colonial period there were only eighteen important estates with reference to which this practice obtained. There were others subject to certain restrictions as to trans- mission, although they were not properly under the law of primogeniture.
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