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The Mita System: Forced Labor Under Spanish Colonial Rule
This episode of The Rise of Colonialism examines the mita, the forced labor system the Spanish imposed on Indigenous communities in the Andes. Lucas and Luna explore how the Spanish adapted the pre-Columbian Inca tradition of rotational labor for state and religious projects, transforming it into a brutal extraction mechanism for silver mining at Potosí and Huancavelica. The conversation covers the huge demographic impact—some communities lost up to a third of their adult men to the mines—and the ways Indigenous leaders and commoners resisted, evaded, and litigated against the system. They…
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