Las Casas copies Isabella’s letter compelling Ayiti’s Taíno to work for wages

… by which I command you, our said Governor, that, from the day you see this my Letter henceforward, you compel and press the said Indians to deal and converse with the Christians of the said island and to work in their buildings, in gathering and extracting gold and other metals, and in making farms and sustenance for the Christian vecinos and dwellers of the said island, and that you cause to be paid to each one, on the day he works, the wage and sustenance that, according to the quality of the land, and of the person, and of the work, it shall seem to you they ought to have, ordering each Cacique to have charge of a certain number of the said Indians, to make them go to work where need be, and so that, on the feasts and days that shall seem fit, they gather to hear and be instructed in the things of the faith, in the places appointed, that each Cacique attend with the number of Indians that you assign to them, to the person or persons whom you name, that they work at what such persons shall command them, paying them the wage that shall be fixed by you, which they shall do and fulfill as free persons, as they are, and not as serfs; …