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Author: Howard, Amy (ID633)
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OH! This surely took away the freedom of SA?s Spaniards!
OH! This surely took away the freedom of SA?s Spaniards!
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Ex-gov. Salazar explained that SA's soldiers were trapped there by debt
Date Created: 2023-10-12 20:56:17
Source: The King?s Coffer (ID 83)
Author: Bushnell, Amy (ID 32)
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Ex-Governor Hita Salazar, who had been governor of Vera Cruz before coming to Florida and who remained in St. Augustine as a private citizen after his term, once gave his experienced view of the situado. In spite of all the funds it contained—and he listed them: the 350 plazas for soldiers, the subsidy for friars, the allotment for administrative salaries, the 1,500-ducat Indian allowance AN48, and the 1,500 ducats for bonuses—the common soldier still paid twice what he should have for shoddy goods he did not want, bought by profiteers with his own money. [Note 51: Ex-Gov. Hita Salazar, seen in Council 2/8/1684] If private merchants could obtain no foothold in town, and no one could leave who was in debt to the exchequer AN49, then it is no wonder that by the 1680s garrison strength in Florida was being filled with sentenced malefactors and persons regarded as racial inferiors. The entire garrison below officer level was existing under the most inexorable debt peonage. AN50 (Bushnell KC)