Slaves

The Aztecs had a interesting system of slavery.
1. Non-Hereditary
2. Slave could have their things-even other slaves.
3.Could buy liberty or would be freed if they could show they had been mistreated or if they couplated with their master.
4. If on a certain day of the year they escaped to the temple of Tezcatlipoca they were Auto-Freed.
5. They got consent on who they were sold to.
6. Sacrifical Slaves were treated like royalty for the most part.
 
You are defending Aztec slavery?

In re: point 6, sacrificial slaves had their still-beating hearts cut out of their chests on the top of a pyramid
 
Yes, so the world wouldn't end.
Given said sacrifice was terminated in the 1520s and world still seems to be in existance, that doesn't seem to be correct.:p
(Yeah, yeah, I know it's what the Aztecs believed...)
As for your list:
1. Non-Hereditary
2. Slave could have their things-even other slaves.
3.Could buy liberty or would be freed if they could show they had been mistreated or if they couplated with their master.
4. If on a certain day of the year they escaped to the temple of Tezcatlipoca they were Auto-Freed.
5. They got consent on who they were sold to.
6. Sacrifical Slaves were treated like royalty for the most part.
Only 1, 5 and 6 are all that out of whack with many other systems of slavery... and I've got the feeling that while 1 and 5 may have been true in principal there were not true in practise.
 
There are so many forms of slavery that you can't really generalize. Islamic domestic slavery, for instance, was not comparatively bad (although the way you became as slave was most likely pretty horrible). There was no social opprobrium attached to status as a slave, and your social standing usually rose to the level of the household you served in, and very many domestic slaves married into their owner's families. You were subject to your master, but you had rights he had to respect. Janissaries and Mamelukes were slaves, but they also ruled their respective empires. Likewise, the marriage rate for Circassian harem slaves into Pasha rank or higher was an astonishing 60%, to the point that you actually had the bizarre situation that girls would run away from home and sell themselves into slavery (of course this was only open to pretty girls). Slaves had property rights, too, so slaves could own their own slaves, who could own their own slaves.
 
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