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hacienda |
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haciendaalso called estancia (Argentina and Uruguay) or fazenda (Brazil)In Latin America, a large landed estate. The hacienda originated in the colonial period and survived into the 20th century. Labourers, ordinarily Indians, were theoretically free wage earners on haciendas, but in practice their employers, who controlled the local governments, were able to bind them to the land, primarily by keeping them in a state of perpetual indebtedness. By the 19th century, as much as half of Mexico's rural population was entangled in the peonage system. Many haciendas were broken up by the Mexican Revolution. |
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After dark we reached the Hacienda of Quintero, the estate which formerly belonged to Lord Cochrane. He has large haciendas at Ambato and Latacunga, and down the coast is he interested in oil-wells. |
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