" we will enter your land against you with force and make war in every place you to the Yoke and authority of the Church and Their Highnesses. We will take you and your wives and children and make them slaves, and as such we will sell them, and dispose of you and them we will take your property and will do to you all the harm and evil we can We avow that the deaths and harm which you will receive thereby will be your own blame-(Slatta p.4 Lecture #1).
At the hands of this institutionalized form of racism and slavery, there was no reprieve for the Indians against the Spainiards. The habitual repression and subjugation of the Indians culminated into what became a rolling revolutionary period in the America's. .
The road to the Latin American Revolutions of the 19th century was also varied regionally. The political unrest in the North of South America was centered on the peninsulares, who had come from the Iberian peninsula specifically for the sole purpose of exploiting the indigenous people in that region of Latin America. In southern South America, they were more loyal to Spain because many were prospering from mining the precious metals. Moreover, in the Carribbean there was a complete condemnation to all things Spanish all together. One of the main causes of many of the revolutions was the growing feeling of Latin American Nationalism that was creeping into individual countries. Along with the tyrannical European rule in their native countries, there came some of the radical reformative thinking of the Age of Enlightenment. The ideas of basic human rights, liberty and rights to ones own personal property and future destiny, were gaining popularity and support in many of the Latin American countries because of the revolutions being fought in places like France and North America. Throughout most of the Caribbean, Creole Nationalism led to slave revolts, uprisings, and the development of new laws to protect the native people from their lives of indentured servitude.