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Colonial Mexico
How enslaved Africans used marriages to Indians to gain freedom in Spanish societies
In the 1500s, there were growing demands for labor to drive the economic growth of colonial Mexico. There was a royal decree to cultivate the influx of more labor to work in the plantations because Indians were not accustomed to the laborious work in the fields. Indians were barred in the 16th century from working…
