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In the 17th and 18th centuries the encomienda existed alongside other forms of colonial exploitation, such as the mita and peonage. The encomienda was officially abolished by royal decrees issued between 1718 and 1791, but in the majority of Spanish colonies it was retained until the early 19th century.
Encomienda System and the New World Indians. by Michael Busbin Along with the Spanish conquest and exploration, came Spanish customs and traditions. They brought along with them a system of forced labor called the encomienda. An encomienda was a means of giving to a Spaniard a restricted set of property rights over Indian labor (Yeager, 843). The Crown in Spain gave this to the Spaniard. The Spaniard, or encomendero, in return extracted tributes from the Indians in form of goods, metals, money, and labor (Yeager, 843).