Ron -
Please reassure Reekie that I do know that Santa Fe was founded late in the 
16th C -- I'm just not that familiar with the historical details of 
historical settlement in the SW with regard to slavery. I mentioned it 
because it seemed more comparable to Jamestown and St. Augustine in that it 
was intended as a permanent settlement, rather than just a stop on an 
exploratory trek.

My undergraduate Spanish Colonial settlement in the 'New World' course was 
about forty years ago, and I haven't tried to keep up with current 
scholarship. I do recall some of the many significant differences between 
the Spanish approach to the 'natives' and those of the English. Whether 
motivated by religion or a desire for 'bound labor' the Encomienda system 
(as I recall) drew more directly on medieval models. The 'natives' were part 
of the land, not, as the English (with a few exceptions like Roger Williams 
in Rhode Island) vermin to be disposed of.

I haven't seen too much in the Jamestown frenzy about 'Bacon's Rebellion' as 
an example of challenge to Royal Authority. I hope that is because the 
professional historical gatekeepers now recognize that what it was really 
about was an attempt to void Gov. Berkeley's treaty with the natives, so 
that Bacon and his cronies could run roughshod over lands that the Governor 
had granted by his authority to the 'natives',  to try to avoid more 
massacres. Bacon thus becomes an odd pre-cursor of the present tendencies in 
our nation toward hubris and hegemony. Democracy is for the white man, not 
the "naturally inferior".

Tim T.