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Batholome de las Casas proposed to Charles V that the Americas would be better colonized if the encomienda system would be abolished and spanish peasants be used to colonize more self sufficiently. However it seems like too few peasants were willing to go over seas, and when support in the court dwindled the ones that did go were not well supplied.
However what kind of POD would make the peasants more willing to go?