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In 1850 rebel commander José María Barrera, a mestizo, led the nearly starving remnant of his followers to a site some 150 kilometers southeast of Valladolid where there was a cenote and a small cross carved into a mahogany tree. Juan de la Cruz Puc, a member of Barrera’s group, now heard voices emanating from the cross, which he relayed by means of a ventriloquist. Soon the Speaking Cross attracted a following that survived the disappearance of Juan de la Cruz in 1852, and the main site of the cult became known as Chan Santa Cruz.
23 Yucatán reflected these national trends. As the number of landless peasants increased, many sought work on the henequen haciendas, where they were paid a daily wage and received a household plot. Purchases from the hacienda store were deducted from wages, but larger debts incurred to cover expenses for weddings, funerals, and religious festivals were not normally collected. State law, however, authorized prosecution of workers who left estates without paying their debts. While no historian doubts the harshness of the labor regime, it may have been mitigated by the paternalism of some hacendados and by the fact that hacienda residence allowed peons to avoid compulsory military service or forced labor on roads.
For permission to reuse this work, contact the University of Alabama Press. Yucatán’s Prelude to Globalization / 27 other agricultural commodities, sisal thrived in the rocky soil of the region. The Caste War created a set of conditions that led the landed elite of the northwest to concentrate their productive energies almost single-mindedly on fiber production. Although some Maya communities were allowed to retain their garden plots, landowners made a systematic effort to plant former cattle and corn haciendas in henequen and to squeeze out milpas formerly devoted to subsistence agriculture.