Slaughter tapping
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Slaughter tapping
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Slaughter tapping is an obsolete method of extracting large quantities of natural latex from rubber trees in a forest environment. Before commercial exploitation of latex-bearing trees such as Hevea brasiliensis in the Amazon Basin and Funtumia elastica in the Congo, native populations limited harvesting to non-lethal tapping of the latex. However, with the rising demand for rubber worldwide in the late nineteenth century, debt-slave "hunters" began tapping more intensively, using ladders to ext
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2024-01-12T15:53:09Z
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