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Forum Post 04/12/10 15:18 Alberto Montevideo

Probably legends. Klarita, Dan, that may be an interesting story; however, it doesn't seem to be true. Slaves in the Rio de la Plata (even in a Portuguese colony as Colonia) were very expensive. It would be a very bad investment to keep that "capital" inactive while the tiles dried on the sun for long, long hours on their legs. In tiles factories, they had special casts to get uniform shapes. In small villages as the Colonia of the founder's time, they used tree rolls to do it and so they varied in shape and size. Sorry to spoil the story. Anyway, all the construction in colonial times was made by slaves or semi-slave indians. Specially during the establishment period. Guarani indians brought from the Misiones were the ones that built the walls of Montevideo and all the significant public buildings. Same thing with Colonia, but probably with black slaves that were brought for the works and taken back to Brazil afterwards.

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