SUBDELEGADOS IN THE INDIANS VILLAGES OF YUCATAN AND THE REPARTIMIENTO

Abstract

The objective of this work is to analyze the practice of repartimiento en the Intendancy of Yucatan. A process initiated in 1795 by the Cabildo de Campeche shows several faces of this commercial system after its prohibition. It did not continue with the same intensity as before and each subdelegate adapted it according to his possibilities, the priority was getting better workforce than products for the haciendas and ranches that were expanding in the region.