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Название книги: Aztec Blood
Автор(ы): Gary Jennings
Жанр: Исторические приключения
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Aztec Blood (Aztec #3)


by Gary Jennings





The birth of a great people occurred after the conquest of Mexico and the mix of Spanish and indigenous blood:
All mixed bloods were called
castas...These street people, who huddled, starved, and begged on every corner of the town... were known as
léperos.Social lepers, they begged, did odd jobs, and robbed. By the seventeenth century, mobs of léperos thronged the capital and constituted a growing threat to public order. They could be wantonly destructive, even murderous... they were the first Mexican bandits...
The lépero lived as he could... ready to cut either a throat or a purse, begging for food or work, screaming under the whips of the town authorities...
Ironically, the léperos were to survive, grow, and finally inherit modern Mexico. They proved, not the degeneracy of man, but mankind's tenacity in the face of hideous adversity.
—T. R. Fehrenback,