File:The Cerro Rico in Potosi - Bolivia (3776346205).jpg
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| Description | Following the discovery of silver in the mid-sixteenth century, this single hill largely paid for the profligacy and foreign wars of the Spanish crown for some two hundred years. Millions of native Indians and African slaves were forced to work in horrific conditions, making the Cerro perhaps the world's single biggest graveyard: anywhere from one million to eight million forced labourers perished in the mines, or from silicosis and other diseases soon after. By some estimates, the mines killed seven out of every ten people who worked there. Time for a Potosí holocaust museum, perhaps? |
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| Source | The Cerro Rico in Potosi - Bolivia |
| Author | Adam Jones from Kelowna, BC, Canada |
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This image was originally posted to Flickr by Adam Jones, Ph.D. - Global Photo Archive at https://flickr.com/photos/41000732@N04/3776346205. It was reviewed on 18 November 2017 by FlickreviewR 2 and was confirmed to be licensed under the terms of the cc-by-sa-2.0. |
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