Este artículo pretende analizar las experiencias de colonización canaria impulsadas por particulares y con respaldo del Estado uruguayo durante la década de 1830. Se trata de un tipo especial de inmigración, ya que los individuos firmaban un contrato que los obligaba a permanecer trabajando en Uruguay hasta saldar la deuda de su pasaje desde Europa.
El Estado, a través de la policía, actuaba como garante del cumplimiento de los contratos.
This article analyzes the experiences of colonization from the Canary Islands driven by private entrepreneurs and backed by the Uruguayan State during the 1830s. This was a special type of immigration, close to indenture servitude, where individuals moving across the continents signed a contract that forced them to keep working in Uruguay until the debt they had incurred (the cost of their maritime passage) was repaid. The Uruguayan State, through the police, was both the guarantor and enforcer of these contracts.
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