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The wrong done to slaves and their descendents is unique in American history.
First were the Mexican Spaniards who settled the region in the eighteenth century and their descendents, called Californios, who represented the California Spanish traditions that Espinosa most wanted to study.
The southwestern region with the most researched and documented wedding customs is New Mexico, because the descendents of the early Hispanos have been conscious of describing and writing down their traditions.
This restriction reinforces the notion of the imperial family as living descendents and representatives of the gods — despite the emperor’s renunciation of divinity announced as one of the terms of surrender at the end of World War II (when some people literally fainted upon hearing the emperor’s voice on the radio for the first time).
However, the sentence could just as well have appeared in a government report expressing an admonition to keep the numbers secret, based on the fact that numbers of such magnitude would anger the slaves' descendents and on an assumed law to the effect that sufficient provocation caused people to rebel.