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Voice of the vanquished

by Helen Heightsman Gordon

1995 472 pages eng

In pre-Columbian Mexico, a young girl is sold into slavery by a wicked stepfather. As a slave, she learns Mayan in addition to her native tongue Nahuatl. She is one of 20 slaves given to Hernan Cortes by the natives of Tabasco in 1519. Finding that she can speak the language of the Aztecs, Cortes …

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