terminant

Updated: June 4, 2025

Notwithstanding these terminant orders, so powerless were they to abolish the abuses resulting from the iniquitous system, that as late as 1550 the Indians were still treated as slaves. In that year Governor Vallejo wrote to the emperor: "I found great irregularity in the treatment of these few Indians, ... they were being secretly sold as slaves, etc."

R. A. (Rudolph Adams) Van Middeldyk - The History of Puerto Rico: From the Spanish Discovery to the American Occupation