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- Title
Back to the Silver Mine: Using Historical Empathy to Teach Potosí and the Mita.
- Authors
Eaton, Dave
- Abstract
In an effort to promote historical empathy of history students, the author discusses the practice of the mita, the Spanish colonial forced-labor system imposed on its indigenous subjects in the viceroyalty of Peru, now located in Bolivia and Peru, specifically how it was used in the silver mining operations of Potosí and the associated mercury mining operations in Huancavelica. Topics considered include access to primary source materials, contemporary activists who attempted to ban the system because of its inhumane conditions, the health impact of mining on workers, racism, and greed.
- Subjects
POTOSI (Bolivia); HUANCAVELICA (Peru); PERU (Viceroyalty); AMERICA; MITA (Labor); HISTORY education; EMPATHY; HISTORICAL source material; SILVER mining; SPANISH colonies; RACISM; COLONIAL administration; HISTORY of the Americas
- Publication
Sixteenth Century Journal, 2020, Vol 51, Issue 2, p487
- ISSN
0361-0160
- Publication type
Article
- DOI
10.1086/scj5102103