Las haciendas sangileñas en el siglo XVIII: infraestructura, mercado y mano de obra

Abstract

The article deals with the landed properties by the 18th century in the jurisdiction of San Gil village. It reports its changes and permanencies in regard to three key elements for the analysis: infrastructure, markets and labour. In this way, it is intended to show the landowners got to take advantage of the increasing mestiza labor when the supplying of slavers was entering into decadence and the dynamic interprovincial markets in order to consolidate their landed properties, facing in a satisfactory way the economical and social crisis suffered by the region by the last quarter of the 18th century and the outflowing of small farm producers (peasant).

Keywords: landed properties, San Gil jurisdiction, eighteenth century, infrastructure, markets, and labor.