Cortes first encountered the practice of human sacrifices in Cozumel and his absolute horror at what he witnesses fueled his religious ideals. He described the human sacrifices he saw, in which the still beating heart was removed from a living person, like this, “kneaded with the blood of human hearts taken from the breasts of living persons, from which a paste is formed in a sufficient quantity to form large statues. When these are completed, they make them offerings of the hearts of other victims, which they sacrifice to them, and besmear their faces with the blood.” Cortez Cortes also described the Aztecs idolatrous practices. Emerging from his experience came the unshakable belief that God would welcome the conversion of such people.
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The slave trade continued in parts of South America long after American Slaves were freed. Brazil was the last country to ban slavery, and they did not do so until 1888. The Spaniards had developed complex and sometimes Antithetical ideologies to justify their racial theories. Essential to this theory was the concept of Limpieza de Sangre, which was the idea that people inherited physical and mental traits via blood. Limpieza de Sangre justified their discrimination against anyone without pure blood. Pure blood being that which contained no Jewish, Muslim of Black or Native ancestry.
Historian, Morner stated that there were three distinct levels of social stratification in New Spain. The caste system previously described an estate system, which was a hierarchal society based on rules and tradition and finally a class system based on economics. This economic contained no legal restrictions, allowing for some social mobility between classes. Indigenous Aztec women suffered greatly under these systems. Since white females made up a minuscule percentage of the population, indigenous females experienced high levels of exploitation and sexual
The slave trade continued in parts of South America long after American Slaves were freed. Brazil was the last country to ban slavery, and they did not do so until 1888. The Spaniards had developed complex and sometimes Antithetical ideologies to justify their racial theories. Essential to this theory was the concept of Limpieza de Sangre, which was the idea that people inherited physical and mental traits via blood. Limpieza de Sangre justified their discrimination against anyone without pure blood. Pure blood being that which contained no Jewish, Muslim of Black or Native ancestry.
Historian, Morner stated that there were three distinct levels of social stratification in New Spain. The caste system previously described an estate system, which was a hierarchal society based on rules and tradition and finally a class system based on economics. This economic contained no legal restrictions, allowing for some social mobility between classes. Indigenous Aztec women suffered greatly under these systems. Since white females made up a minuscule percentage of the population, indigenous females experienced high levels of exploitation and sexual