 In the countryside they were represented in wet-nursing, housekeeping, domestics, cowboys, animal herding, etc.After Indians became scarce as labor force on haciendas, the people of color gained a title of "yanakuna", hitherto assigned only to indigenous servants with full right to own a piece of land and a day to work on it.Afro-Peruvians often exercised agency by using "huido" (translated as escape, flight) from haciendas and changing masters on their own initiative or joining the "cimarrones" (armed gangs of runaway slaves that formed small communities in the wilderness and raided travel merchants).