To put simple this was a complete lie, the native people may have been free on paper but they could never leave. They would work on these Spaniards farms getting paid next to nothing while having to buy there food, cloths, and even homes from there employers at a mark up if course. Having to spend all of their income back to the man who paid them left the natives in colossus debt. Lets not forget about the Physical and mental abuse they also went trough due to the fact that the Spanish seen the natives as 2nd class citizens. Not long after the abuse of the natives and the ramped corruption of the encomienda system the Spanish crown soon outlawed the