... to do the physical labor themselves; instead African slaves were brought to the New World in order to work on the plantations. When the situation arose that African slaves didn't adapt to the conditions properly, Native Indians were forced to labor. This subjugation of Africans and the indigenous populations has had dramatic effects on society. As most regions emancipated the ... slaves sometime in the mid eighteenth century, a social pyramid developed where white elite's at the top, mulatto landowners and poor whites ... the country to identify itself with Spanish and European ideals ...

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