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system that gave settlers the right to tax local Indians or to demand their labor in exchange for protectig them and teaching them skills
ex. Caribbean countries -
1750= not very popular, very minimal
initrially just among middle clas ( mestizos and mulatos) -
began because the native population decline because of new disease so they needed a larger work force
because to increase bc mita decreased and more plantations needed more workers and demand for goods, like suger, increased
stopped because abolished with new humanist movements and serverly declined but some illegal account in Brazil after -
labor system used for lands assianged to the state and the relgion; all communties were expected to contribute, an essential aspect of Inca imperial control
subject to poor condition in mines= similar to same time in Africa with El Mina with Portuguese working Africans to get goods, like gold
decreased bc not enough natives bc of disease and move away to avoid this obigation to work and then bc of deconoization and independence movements -
in return for working for about 5 or 7 years, people would be brought over from their home country to the Americas and provided with all the staples needed for living
filled need for household workers and personal servants
after slavery was abolished the need for indentured servants intensified