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Native laborers who tried to leave Spanish dominion were convicted as rebels
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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[During Castillo construction] An undetermined number of commoners simply drifted away from the doctrinas with their burdensome demands in search of an easier existence elsewhere. The sanctions against the total self-determination of a true fugitive, or "cimarron," were severe. Whether a ''fugitivo" left the company of Christians to join a town of infieles or to get along on his own, hunting, gathering, and growing a bit of maize, he could expect to be condemned as an apostate and pursued as a rebel. Fugitivism, or marronage, would continue to be a last resort until there was a stronger pull factor, namely, a better line of trade goods from a less interfering sort of European. (Bushnell SS)
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