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Florida developed its own economy through native labor
Source: Situado and Sabana #82
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CHAPTER 20. A PARADIGM FOR MARITIME PERIPHERIES Spanish Florida offers a case study of a coastal presidio, of the formation and dissolution of an associated set of mission provinces on a maritime frontier, and of the changing system of royal and native support sustaining that presidio and those provinces. For strategic reasons, the colony had been located on a contested coast, far from inland centers of population and production. With no immediate source of Indian tribute or labor, it survived on subventions from one of the royal treasuries in the Indies. In the late 16th and early 17th centuries, floridanos improved their political and economic position by annexing Indian chiefdoms, securing subjects for the Crown and converts for the Church and at the same time developing new sources of labor and provisions. Evangelization served both religious and secular purposes; the extension and defense of missions became a cover for private trade. (Bushnell SS)
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