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    The document indicted Spanish encomenderos for imposing impossible taxes, usurers for saddling people with unpayable debts, and radical leaders for undermining confidence in the government. It accused the speaker of not supporting their family, ignorance, and indolence, but the speaker argued this was due to being kept in bondage and having the fruits of their labor taken. The speaker demanded to be given land to own freely as recompense for their starvation and so their children would not die, saying they would work until exhaustion to pay for this right to freedom. However, if land was not granted, the speaker warned they would come at night with a cry and bolo when the addressee was feasting,

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    The document indicted Spanish encomenderos for imposing impossible taxes, usurers for saddling people with unpayable debts, and radical leaders for undermining confidence in the government. It accused the speaker of not supporting their family, ignorance, and indolence, but the speaker argued this was due to being kept in bondage and having the fruits of their labor taken. The speaker demanded to be given land to own freely as recompense for their starvation and so their children would not die, saying they would work until exhaustion to pay for this right to freedom. However, if land was not granted, the speaker warned they would come at night with a cry and bolo when the addressee was feasting,

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    I indict the Spanish encomendero for inventing taxes impossible to bear.

    I indict the usurer for saddling me with debts impossible to pay.


    I indict the irresponsible radical leaders who undermine, with insidious
    eloquence, the confidence of my kind in our government.
    You accuse me of not supporting my family. Free me from bondage, and
    I shall prove you false.
    You accuse me of ignorance. But I am ignorant because my master finds
    it profitable to keep me ignorant. Free me from bondage, and I shall
    prove you false.
    You accuse me of indolence. But I am indolent not because I have no
    will, but because I have no hope. Why should I labor, if all the fruits of
    my labor go to pay an unpayable debt. Free me from bondage, and I
    shall prove you false.
    Give me land. Land to own. Land unbeholden to any tyrant. Land that
    will be free. Give me land for I am starving. Give me land that my
    children may not die. Sell it to me, sell it to me at a fair price, as one
    freeman sells to another and not as a usurer sells to a slave. I am poor,
    but I will pay it! I will work, work until I fall from weariness for my
    privilege, for my inalienable right to be free!
    BUT IF YOU WILL NOT GRANT ME THIS If you will not grant
    me this last request, this ultimate demand, then build a wall around your
    home build it high! build it strong! Place a sentry on every
    parapet! for I who have been silent these three hundred years will
    come in the night when you are feasting, with my cry and my bolo at
    your door. And may God have mercy on your soul!

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