The Aztec Empire fall to the Hernán Cortés. The Aztec empire was being ruled by spaniards. From the earliest interactions between these groups, Spanish males and Aztecan women bred and created a new breed of people called the 'mestizo'. The Spanish eventually introduced African slaves into society as a source of labor, and they bred with the Spanish and the Aztecs to and developed the 'mulatto' community (Darwin 64). [16] This interbreeding created a hierarchal society based upon race, with the Spanish whites, or 'criolles' on top. The new 'creole' society in New Spain was a direct consequence of the European conquest of Aztec society, for it never would have transpired without them.
Also,Aztec slavery, within the structure of the Mexica society, produced many slaves, known by the Nahuatl word, tlacotin. Within Mexica society, slaves constituted an important class.
Aztecs as slaveowners have to provide food and shelter to their slaves.
Slaves were bound to their master's lands, until one's debt was paid to his master. Barring being a captive, being punished for committing a crime, or failing to pay an outstanding gambling debt, slavery was an institution one could enter into freely.In that respect, the system was not slavery, but contractual indentured servitude, resulting in "unfree labor."
