Indigenous American travellers in Europe
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What Are Some of the Stories That Stick With You?
There are some cases where the precarity of those people becomes very very evident so for instance a woman who is brought across by a man who she clearly recognizes as her legitimate partner but then he for some reason decides to marry and then dies. The new wife tries to assert that she's enslaved and they have to fight her in the courts your book is chock-a-block with these kind of stories but of all of them I was wondering whether there were any that really stuck with you yes I think the the story that most sticks with me is the story is actually a story that came from outside of my specialism originally I started as a historian of the Mexica Aztec people.
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