Slavery
Bernal Díaz de Castillo (Historia verdadera de la conquista de la Nueva España, Chapter XXIX) said Aguilar told them some of the ship's crew were sacrificed almost immediately, while the rest were put into cages. They managed to escape but were captured by other Mayan lords, who enslaved them. By 1519, the year Hernán Cortés began his Conquest of Mexico, only two from the original shipwreck were still alive: Gonzalo Guerrero, who by this time had become famous in the Mayan world as a war leader for Nachan can, Lord of Chactemal; which includes parts of Mexico and Belize, and Gerónimo de Aguilar, who had taken holy orders in his native Spain. Guerrero had by then married Nachan Can's daughter Zazil Há and was the father of America's first mestizo children.
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