Country: Uruguay

Group: Charrua

Date:  11/6/2020

Team: Ann Thomas (lead), Ethan Pelland, Johanna McCombs

Content Warning: forced labor, genocide, ethnocide, war

Approximate Time Period: 1830-1852

There is some evidence that the Charrua have been subject to forced labor in Uruguay.

The Charrua were an indigenous, semi-nomadic hunter-gatherers in Uruguay. (McDermott 2020).  When the Spanish arrived in Uruguay, they initiated war with the Charrua which went on for three centuries (Uruguay, 2011). In the 1830’s, Uruguayan president José Fructuoso Rivera committed genocide against the Charrua and the remainng women and children were used as laborers in domestic households (Schulman, n.d.).

The data quality for this write-up is a 1. There was little information about this group or the details of their forced labor. Sources indicate a portion of them were forced into slavery and forced labor but there is not much related information concerning this topic.

Sources

  1. McDermott, Alicia. “The Last of the Charrua: The Honored Warrior Tribe of Uruguay.” Ancient Origins, Ancient Origins, 19 Mar. 2020, www.ancient-origins.net/history-famous-people/last-charrua-honored-warrior-tribe-uruguay-003528.
  2. Schulman, B. (n.d.). Uruguay Native Peoples: Student Pages. Retrieved October 30, 2020, from https://www.academia.edu/40754768/Uruguay_Native_Peoples_Student_Pages
  3. Uruguay (2011). “The Charrua Indians”, Blogger, 1 Jan. 2011, anthropologyofuruguay.blogspot.com/2011/03/charrua-indians.html.