Category: Slavery in the World

For slave owners, many arguments that were believed to be powerful enough to overwhelm the abolitionist’s theories have been repeated and taught as a pro-slavery ideology. Slave owners argued that ending slavery would have had a profound and budgetary effect in the As their ethics became bombarded by the anti-slavery bias, slave owners and politicians…

Abstract The article identifies the models of exploitation held in sugar plantations during the abolition of slavery in Brazil. It is argued that the process of abolition in the Northeast sugar region did not represent a transition from a race-based system of coerced labour to a post-slavery system based on free labour. The conditions for…

Introduction Nowadays, when human rights are said to be accepted all over the world, it might seem that slavery is an obsolete form of labor that seized to exist. Indeed, it is hard to imagine that some people are forced into work without proper compensation. Nevertheless, slavery is not a part of human history, it…

When the calendars show the 9th of April 1965, and seven months later on when the 13th Amendment ratified by congress, Henry Blake and his family was finally free. He was a son of farmer family and as his family did, he farmed for most of his life. The conditions didnt change much after their…

In Aristotles Politics, Aristotle poses the question Is there any one thus intended by nature to be a slave, and for whom such a condition is expedient and right, or rather is not all slavery a violation of nature? (Aristotle, Politics, Book 1 here) In other words, are some people born and destined to be…

In 1562, the Rev. Richard Hakluyt transported his cargo of 300 Negros & unto the Island of Hispaniola . His voyage was one of the earliest examples of English slave trading. He neither expressed moral ambivalence nor was he proud of his transaction. During the Tudor reign, England was far from being an imperial power…

America was founded on the idea of freedom, but the institution of slavery contrasts this main american principle by prioritizing one persons freedom over anothers based solely on skin color. Freedom in this sense could be defined as being able to make decisions for yourself and your country, which is exactly what blacks were prohibited…

‘Where Slavery is there Liberty cannot be; and where Liberty is there Slavery cannot be.’ (Charles Sumner) Its curious how Americans unquestioningly accept that the words of the Constitution are so unwaveringly just and ethical. If one takes a closer look and puts themselves into the context of the late eighteenth century, the US Constitution…

The Transatlantic slave trade was one conducted through the Atlantic Ocean that transported a total of 10 to 12 million enslaved Africans. This trade was a major leg that makes up the triangular trade that also transported other goods, such as wine, firearms, and textiles. The slave trade began in the 15th century and ended…

Some people may not know there is this thing called slaves, slaves were in America eons ago we do not have slaves anymore we didn’t have slaves since December 18, 1865, and this is part of what happened. Condition in which one human being was owned by another, a slave was considered by law as…