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Yes they had slaves. They captured people from other tribes or settlers and had them set to be sacrifices or just slaves. But most of them were sacrifices.

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Maya had slaves probably used for sacrifice.

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The Mayan did have slavery but they thought about their future so the slavery only went on for a few days then they considered slavery is illegal.

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Mayans used slaves to do all the craft work and they were at the bottom of mayan society because their was more of them and it was a common job, hope this answered your question!!!

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