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Slavery is something that should have never happened, but unfortunatly it
did. This
project is about the history of slavery in America, and the terrible unfair
deal with.
When the Meso American, or the Middle American natives first encountered
the
Europeans, they were very familiar with slavery. Among the most advanced
civi ....
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.... mathematics, and the calendar. Like the Aztec, the Mayans aquired
slaves in the same
ways. In Maya, slavery was hereditary, the children of the slaves would
automatically become
slaves themselves. Slaves preformed hard manual labor for households. They
carried
merchandise on their backs, paddled canoes, gathered supplies, and pampered
their masters. The
slaves of an important person who died may be killed and buried with the
owner to become his
slave in the next life.
Two separate economies developed in northern and s ....
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