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tlacanecuilocan.

Headword: 
tlacanecuilocan.
Principal English Translation: 

a market place with a focus on selling enslaved human beings (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 19.

Attestations from sources in English: 

At the market in Azcapotzalco, slaves were carefully selected for ceremonies in which they would be sacrificed. (central Mexico, sixteenth century)
Fr. Bernardino de Sahagún, Florentine Codex: General History of the Things of New Spain; Book 1 -- The Gods; No. 14, Part 2, eds. and transl. Arthur J. O. Anderson and Charles E. Dibble (Santa Fe and Salt Lake City: School of American Research and the University of Utah, 1950), 19.

themes: 
Labor, Work, Labor Concerns
Markets, Commerce, Economy
Slavery
Social Hierarchy, Commoners, Elites