jan 1, 1888 - 1888 - Karl Benz begins commercial production of automobiles began creating the rush There were laws agains slavery, but no way to enforce… so people were being taken and enslaved to work to cultivate rubber Guns came in with the rubber boom (1880s)... those working with rubber bosses (mestizo) were given guns… capture members of other groups for labor purposes. (some would also take heads and “shrink” them) Also people fled from correrias or were taken by Caucheros and moved them far away

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Guns came in with the rubber boom (1880s)... those working with rubber bosses (mestizo)
were given guns… they would war with other groups and capture members for labor purposes. (some would also take heads and “shrink” them)

Also people fled from correrias or were taken by Caucheros and moved them far away from their native lands.

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