Manors
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Land Reform
Life for those who owned large farming estates was characterized by wealth, social status, and control over resources, allowing them to enjoy a comfortable lifestyle and make significant decisions regarding land and labor. In contrast, those who worked on these estates often faced hard labor, long hours, and limited rights, living under challenging conditions with little financial security. The disparity in wealth and power created a significant divide between the landowners and the laborers, impacting their social mobility and quality of life. This dynamic often resulted in a dependence of workers on the landowners, perpetuating cycles of inequality.
a large percentage of people engaged in farming.
Large, self-sufficient farming estates were called Manors!
Manors
Large farming estates in Latin America are called "haciendas." These estates are typically associated with agricultural production, such as crops like sugarcane, cotton, or coffee. haciendas were commonly owned by wealthy individuals or families during the colonial period.
Latifundia
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Latifundia
Large estates in Ancient Rome, owned by patricians, were called latifundia.
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There was not a name for a farming estate which used slave labour. Slaves worked on large landed estates. These were called fundi (plural of fundus) or latifundia (plural of latifundium, "spacious" + fundus, "farm, estate"). The name remained after these estates stopped using slave labour.
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Haciendas
Slaves who worked in farming estates were farm slaves. The Romans had many farm slaves. In antiquity slaves were war captives. They were civilians who were captured and enslaved when a town or a land was defeated as part of the spoils of war. The majority of Roman slaves worked on the large farming estates. In other historical periods and part of the world slaves were (and is some areas still are) captured in slave raids.