 Their multiple languages, ties to their home communities, collective land tenure which the crown had protected now were their chains preventing individual advancement.Although Abad y Queipo deplored the situation of the Indians, he did not blame them for it, viewing it not due to inherent racial or character flaws but to crown protectionism.Abad y Queipo drew on the writings of reformist Spaniard Gaspar Melchor de Jovellanos's "Informe de ley agraria".