On 11 February 1719, a royal law ordered new foundry houses in the mining districts, required gold to be cast and stamped there, and replaced an annual quota with the fifth (one fifth) levied on gold. The policy formalized a colonial extraction system whose mines relied heavily on enslaved African labor and Indigenous dispossession. The law is included as economic context: it was not an enslaved people’s revolt or a challenge to slavery. Its measures helped provoke the 1720 Vila Rica uprising, led by free residents contesting royal fiscal control.
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What did the 1719 law require of gold miners?
The 1719 law strengthened royal control over gold extraction and taxation.
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The foundry system required gold to be processed and taxed through royal institutions.