The Pull of Silver in the Resendez book
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After reading The Pull of Silver″ in the Reséndez book, describe three methods of free and enslaved labor used by the Spanish to excavate silver from mines of Mexico and parts of South America. How did the discovery of silver extend the institution of Indian slavery?
Andres Resendez features the history of Indian enslavement in South America and describes how the national identities of the United States and Mexico were built upon the dependence of indigenous people. Slavery in the Spanish colony was a social and economic institution. It was a pervasive institution in India with unfree labor who had fewer rights and the Spanish used three methods of free and enslaved labor to excavate silver.
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“The other slavery” is one of the methods of free and enslaved labor used by the Spanish to excavate silver from Mexican mines and some South American parts. This method had no legal foundation hence was never abolished in a formal way. 