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Possible copyright infringement. See [1] Adding a request.. Chevinki 08:42, 9 March 2007 (UTC) reply

This information originally was in the aztec article. The article was too long so it was separated in pieces. This article should have links from "aztec and aztec society, where it is mentioned. I thought this material had been erased after the article was cleaned. I am glad still is here.

The page you cited is the "original" wikipedia article, from about a year ago... (you can check in the history.)

I wrote the original text, most of if, based on the book, "La civilizacion Azteca" by Orosco y Berra. 1870. The sources were left in the original aztec article, i will copied from there.

Nanahuatzin 15:52, 9 March 2007 (UTC) reply

I'm trying to clean out the orphans from a year ago but don't want to delete indiscriminately. Glad to see it's not a copyright issue. I'll link it to the main article on Aztec culture and deorphan it. Chevinki 17:38, 9 March 2007 (UTC) reply

An ip has deleted a comparison to Greece, since there is no reference it cannot be substantiated either way.-- Inayity ( talk) 14:20, 20 December 2012 (UTC) reply

Apparently it's a "PPOV" (the first P being "personal", presumably) that the slavery described here was nothing like classical slavery. So...does the article say the Aztecs regarded it as commendable to send slaves into the mines to be worked to death when they got old? Because the Romans did. Aztec slavery wasn't hereditary, and Aztec slaves were freed if they had a child with their masters—meanwhile, "the child of a slave-woman is a slave" is one of the best known adages of Roman law. Aztec slaves could own slaves themselves, which was certainly never the case in any classical culture. Aztec slaves were freed if they could show they'd been mistreated, there was a reason some Roman aristocrats were rumored to fatten up their eels on slave-meat.

Aztec slavery seems to have had many commonalities with some European slave-systems, those of some of the "barbarian" tribes for instance. But the classical Mediterranean system? No. How are we even debating this? 71.37.218.97 ( talk) 14:23, 20 December 2012 (UTC) reply

I am saying Aztec was more humane. i actually thought you were arguing Aztec was worse. Or was that another ip?-- Inayity ( talk) 15:50, 20 December 2012 (UTC) reply

It might've been a different IP, but it was me (I'm also the same person as above, if this IP is different). I have a dynamic IP. But yeah, Aztec slavery was more humane; I was saying that Classical was like Colonial but worse (actually, only the English colonies practiced full Classical chattel-slavery; Spanish and French slavery was on the Byzantine model, where slaves were forced laborers and had no civil rights, but still had legally-protected human rights, though they were of course easier to abuse than freemen). 71.37.218.97 ( talk) 22:28, 2 January 2013 (UTC) reply