Category: Slavery in the World

From the seventeenth century onwards, slaves were the focus of trade between Europe and Africa. From the fifteenth century onwards, the conquest and colonization of North and South America and the Caribbean islands by Europe created an unquenchable thirst for African workers, who were perceived to be more suited to work in the New World’s…

Slavery can be said to be as old as human civilisation itself. From antiquity, people often owned fellow human beings for various reasons like sexual satisfaction and free labor. Ancient historical records and most early religious materials document the vastness of slavery and slave trade among the ancient civilisations. Despite its popularity, there were often…

Slavery has always been a big topic in the world of religion and across many countries and is seen in very different ways with different views on the beliefs towards it. A slave is defined as a person who is the legal property of another and is forced to obey them. This term, in some…

Introduction Modern slavery is present in all societies across the world, even if governments do not want to recognize it. Moreover, no citizen wants to think that the contemporary and civilized world in which they live is as bad as the middle ages in terms of people being force to do something just due to…

Introduction In the 1950s there was strong criticism by many people of how America and South Africa treated their black people even though slavery had been abolished in 1865. In numerous countries black people still could not vote, own land or run businesses. In 1873 Slavery was outlawed in Australia. Prior to this, Aboriginal babies…

Slavery was an industry all on its own, we now know this to also be a form of human trafficking, and whilst it still exists in some areas of the world it is illegal. Free the Slaves is in the vanguard of the growing global movement to end one of historys greatest human rights abuses.…

Slavery and the slave trade were the most intense and lasting cohesive activities in the Atlantic World for demographic cultural, military, social and political reasons (Sanjurjio, 2020). For almost 500 years, from 1444 to 1926, slavery was an acceptable form of forced labour worldwide (See Appendix) but especially within Latin America. The complete launch of…

Slavery is an issue that has existed since the 16th century and still, to this day, thrives in different forms all over the world. Contemporary slavery mainly thrives in underdeveloped and developing countries, but it is not to say that it is not present in developed countries. Modern-day slavery takes place in many forms ranging…

American slavery and the trade of Atlantic slaves in the Americas are known all over the world. Slavery was a common follow-up from 1600 to 1900 cerium in the Americas and Muslim nations. Two other trade movements similar to Atlantic trade are one across the Sahara Desert and one across the Indian Ocean. Over the…

Executive Summary Modern-day slavery, as unfortunate as it is, is still prevalent in todays world. Despite humans great achievements in the field of science and technology like reaching to the moon, these accomplishments have not witnessed any slavery predicament. Modern-day slavery has to do with poverty, corporate greed, inaction of large firms, and difficult nature…