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ny of those slaves wished for the luck of the Aztec tlacoltin.What were then the conditions of the Aztecs slaves? First of all, the tlacoltin worked for someone else [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], usually like an agricultural or domestic worker. The tlacotli did not receive any payment for his services, but he is given shelter, food and clothes like an ordinary citizen. There were the cases of tlacoltin that became the “butlers” of big houses and had under their command free people. Besides this, the tlacoltin could accumulate goods and wealth [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], and if he had enough, he could also purchase houses, land and even slaves for his own service. An Aztec slave could marry a free woman; often, an Aztec widow married one of her slaves who later became the lord of the house and the chief of the family. Their children were all born free, since there wasn’t any adhered hereditary stigma to the Aztec condition of slave. One of the greatest Aztec emperors, Itzcóatl was the son of Acamapichtli and a slave.Towards the end of the XVIth century, the number of tlacoltin appeared to be rising. The development of trade with distant territories, tributes and such diversity in lifestyles explain this. In a complex [link widoczny dla zalogowanych], rapidly changing society, the rise of some pe
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