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SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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Slavery:    is a system under which people are treated as property to be bought and sold, and are forced to work.  Slaves can be held against their will from the time of their capture, purchase or birth, and deprived of the right to leave, to refuse to work, or to demand compensation. Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by most societies; in more recent times, slavery has been outlawed in all countries, but it continues through the practices of debt bondage, indentured servitude, serfdom, domestic servants kept in captivity, certain adoptions in which children are forced to work as slaves, child soldiers, and forced marriage.  Slavery is officially illegal in all countries, but there are still an estimated 20 million to 30 million slaves worldwide.  Mauritania was the last jurisdiction to officially outlaw slavery (in 1981/2007), but about 10% to 20% of its population is estimated to live in slavery.


[glow=blue,2,300]The Slave Trade from the early 1500's until Present Day - Specifically in the N. Hemisphere * [/glow]

What is your knowledge on the subject?

What were you taught, or not taught, in school?

What do you know, or are you even aware of, the present day Slave Trade?

[glow=green,2,300]The discussion is not limited to African - American Slaves, for it is well known  * Whites, Asians, & other Races from various National Origins were used as Slaves, & are also considered as captive Slaves in our Present Day & Age Worldwide.[/glow]







[glow=blue,2,300]Timeline 1502 -1805 [/glow]   Source



1502

First enslaved Africans in the Americas when the Europeans conquer Mexico.

1562

Sir John Hawkins becomes England’s first slave trader when he embarks on a voyage to Sierra Leone and loads his ship with 500 Africans to be sold to estate o wners in the West Indies.  He burns African villages and towns in order to get slaves.

1564

Queen Elizabeth I sponsors Sir John Hawkins’ second voyage, providing him with a 700 ton ship, Jesus of Lubeck.  He captures 500 Africans in Guinea and trades them in the West Indies.  Over the next five years he will make 3 more trips, totalling 1200 slaves.

1619

First ‘indentured servants’ (workers placed under a contract to work for a specific amount of time to pay off passage to a new country) brought from Africa to Jamestown, Virginia, America to grow tobacco.


1660

Charles II grants a monopoly for the trading of slaves to the Royal Adventurers into Africa, a company led by James, Duke of York, Charles II’s brother.

1672

The Royal African Company succeeds the Royal Adventurers into Africa and operates a monopoly on the slave trade, transporting an average of 5 000 slaves each year between 1680 and 1686.

1698

The Royal African Company’s monopoly is ended and the slave trade opened to all. By the end of the century, England leads the world in the trafficking of slaves

1730

Britain becomes the biggest slave trading country.

1760

Quakers (who will later lead the abolitionist movement) ban slave trading amongst their followers.

1770’s


The abolitionist, Granville Sharpe collects evidence showing slavery to be incompatible with English law.

1774

John Wesley, a Methodist preacher, publishes Thoughts Upon Slavery, arguing for its abolition.

1775


Royal Commission created to take evidence on the slave trade. The first resolution against the slave trade moved in House of Commons.

1778


The Scottish legal case Knight vs Wedderburn rules that no individual can legally be a slave in Scotland.

1786

Thomas Clarkson’s essay (originally written in Latin), An essay on the slavery and commerce of the human species, particularly the African is published, establishing Clarkson as an important voice in the abolitionist movement.

1787

Granville Sharp and Thomas Clarkson form the Society for the Abolition of the Slave Trade.

Ottabah Cugoano, a former slave, publishes an account of his experiences, Narrative of the Enslavement of a Native of America, with the help of his friend, Olaudah Equiano.

1788


William Pitt introduces a Bill to abolish the slave trade, which fails. Britain passes Sir William Dolben’s Act to limit the numbers of slaves to be carried on slave ships but reports of horrifying conditions during the middle passage continue.

1789


Olaudah Equiano, a former slave who bought his own freedom,  publishes his autobiography The Life of Olaudah Equiano the African.  The book is also published in America, Germany and Holland and becomes a bestseller.

1791

William Wilberforce’s first Bill on the abolition of the slave trade is defeated by a majority of 75 votes against .

1792

Wilberforce presents an amended Bill for the ‘gradual’ abolition of the slave trade.  The House of Commons votes in favour of the Bill but it is rejected by the House of Lords.

Denmark abolished slave trade

1793


French Revolutionary Wars between Britain and France delays the abolition campaign.

1794-1804

United States abolishes foreign slave Trade.

France abolishes slavery in French colonies.

1796

John Stedman publishes Narrative of a Five Years Expedition Against the Revolted Negroes of Surinam, an account of the inhumane treatment of slaves by slave owners, based on his experiences as a soldier sent to suppres a slave rebellion in Surinam, 1772-3.

1803

Napoleon reintroduces slavery in French colonies

1803 – 1815

Napoleonic Wars between Britain and France

1805

Bill for the Abolition is passed in the House of Commons, but rejected in the House of Lords.

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Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

Reply #1
An interesting, but incomplete timeline. There's a huge problem today with Sexual Slavery

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Is sexual slavery a big problem?
Most human trafficking of women involves sexual slavery so the numbers are in the millions and rising. The problem has been reported in more than 190 countries. Traffic is common from South East Asia, China, Africa, Latin America and Eastern Europe into North America, Western Europe, Japan, Australia and the Middle East.
What is the process of enslavement?
Women are forced or tricked to leave their friends and community, their documents taken off them and then the sexual slavery is imposed through a "seasoning" process that breaks down the will and ego of its victims. Systematic subjugation to debasing practices and derogatory comments steadily erodes women's or girls' sense of self-worth. Beatings and rape from spouses, pimps, or traffickers secure the enslaving conditions until, eventually, the pimp can leave the victim alone at home or out on the street to prostitute without fear she will flee.


"Women's or girls." All too often, the victim is a child. There's a story about this in the Las Vegas Sun .I recommend reading the article.

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It was June 2010, and Swanson’s youngest daughter, Mary, then 18 years old, sat in the Clark County Detention Center after being arrested for soliciting a police officer. Mary never called her mother. Instead, Mary spent three days in the county jail.

Meanwhile, Metro Police delivered the news to a frantic Swanson. At the advice of investigators, Swanson played ignorant and continued sending her daughter text messages each morning and night, like she had been doing for months:

“I love you. Please come home.”

Sex Trafficking in Vegas
Boulder Highway is an area identified by Metro as a hotspot for prostitution and is frequently patrolled by officers. A woman is seen walking north on Boulder Highway north of Lamb Blvd. on Tuesday, October 30, 2012.
Home is where this story begins, where a predator named Kobe Hogue worked his way into the family and stole its youngest member, a junior at Centennial High School in fall 2008 who fell for a boy.

Andrea Swanson gave Hogue food, bus passes, a cellphone and, most crucial of all, a mother’s trust. At the time, it made sense: Hogue’s presence made Swanson’s teenage daughter, a girl wrestling with self-esteem issues, happy for the first time in months.

Nearly two years later, Swanson discovered the young man she welcomed into her home had thrust her daughter into a life of prostitution. Hogue was Mary’s pimp.

And now her daughter was in jail.

How it’s happening
Metro Police say Hogue appeared to be an unsophisticated pimp trying to establish himself in the underworld of sex trafficking. By all accounts, Mary was the only girl Hogue prostituted, a situation that leads authorities to believe Mary would have become Hogue’s “bottom,” slang for a pimp’s most-prized girl.

"He was an opportunist,” said Lt. Karen Hughes, who oversees Metro’s vice section. “That’s how a lot of them start off — looking for an opportunity to make money.”

By the time police arrested Mary for soliciting prostitution, she already was 18 years old. But she met her pimp as a juvenile, a situation law enforcement officials say has long been a problem in Las Vegas that’s just now getting more attention.

“It’s a deep, dark secret that no one wants out of the closet,” said Rashell Zerbe, a detective in Metro’s vice unit who investigates child prostitution cases.

Last year, Metro investigated 131 juvenile-prostitution cases, most involving female victims, according to department data. Of those, 74 percent were from Nevada — an increase compared with past years.



But it gets worse. In 2006, the US State Department reported that over one million children worldwide were sex slaves.

Slavery continues to this very day.

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

Reply #2
The only reason that there's not (officially) slavery anymore it's because there are mechanical ways of producing cheaper and with more profit than using slaves.
Since machines can't produce sex, there you have sexual slavery.
A matter of attitude.

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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Slavery goes away much further back than that selection SmileyFaze.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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The only reason that there's not (officially) slavery anymore it's because there are mechanical ways of producing cheaper and with more profit than using slaves.

Even in the time of the American Civil War, slavery was dying institution.  Mechanized farms in the free states were handily outproducing the old Southern Plantations. Morals aside, owning large numbers of people to do the work was becoming economically nonviable. In a generation, slavery would be all but dead, if not by law than in practice. The possible exception would have been slaves to be the maid and other house servants.

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The only reason that there's not (officially) slavery anymore it's because there are mechanical ways of producing cheaper and with more profit than using slaves.
Since machines can't produce sex, there you have sexual slavery.


There is definitely slavery today. It is generally illegal, but the enforcement of these laws vary, as does the reach of the central government. The definitions and estimated extent vary, but it is a real phenomena.

Contemporary slavery

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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Here in the State where I live, children that go to school (with good scores) and that help their parents working at home are being counted by experts as child slaves!
On the other hand, children in other States that don't go to school and that don't do work of any sort aren't counted as anything that we should worry about.  :mad:

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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I can't come into Illinois from Missouri on Interstate 57 without passing a sign that asks us to be alert for the possibility that we could encounter people who are slaves. Migrant field workers mostly-- some of those folk are in fact slaves, believe it or not. Of course, some sex workers are slaves. The idea is to give officials more "eyes" and "ears" so these people can be reached and -- just maybe-- set free. Sure, it's illegal-- but it's happening, here, today.
What would happen if a large asteroid slammed into the Earth?
According to several tests involving a watermelon and a large hammer, it would be really bad!

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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Sanguinemoon is correct regarding the Civil War times and even if the CSA had continued to exist slavery would have went evn if a slower rate than the rest of the world. It was just unfortunate that what transpired afterwards was not something to be happy about.  What i do often sigh at is the trend to concentrate so much on Caucasian led slavery when as i pointed out it has been a centuries old practice going back in the mystery of time. This may well be because it is nearer out rime but I don't think Europeans should be regarded as the culprits full stop.

There are also variations of slavery today as well. Employers who tie poor immigrant workers to starvation wages to increase profit margins and sex slavery. Bother ar at level to be of concern.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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At a wider sense of slavery, large parts of population are slaves.
What really characterizes slavery and makes it different from simple misery payments it's the real (not just legal) possibility for buying and selling people, to own people.

Here, several cases have appeared of people, usually mentally ill or deficient people, that are sold for Spanish farms where they are kept at animal like conditions and forced by violence to work.

It doesn't seems to be a matter of importance to the government, paying exorbitant and usury interest rates to the international finance being much more important. Ignoring such cases even helps cutting down social security expenses and present some nice figure powerpoints to Mrs Merkel.
A matter of attitude.

Re: SLAVERY -- The History of Slavery in the Northern Hemisphere 1500's to Present

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What I find tiring about slavery arguments and on the media is it just concentrates on the last few centuries when whites were much in the leadership (although they were ably helped by browns and blacks who had authority). Then the "experts" who claim towns they liberally list as having been built on such. Not always true. The hard fact is that there was mass slavery long before Europeans got on to the thing and I wish it was a more sensible equation.

It does continue today of course and in certain rich places in the ME immigrant workers have their passports confiscated and are worked like, well, slaves. Many die due to the horrible conditions. There are also places where children are bought and sold for husbands and that is a dreadful corner with girls as young as 9 and 10 being sold into marriage. Right across countries like mas population places such as India and others children stay away from school to do the most menial and exhausting jobs and is yet another form of slavery. There are too many such countries who like modern stuff like the media, internet and such material benefits but do little about the age-old slavery issue. It is disgusting and damnable.
"Quit you like men:be strong"

 

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Discrimination (as in deprivation of basic rights) was doing very well in the sixties' USA:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GoUct-62nUo

Frankly, this "literacy test" is of the same nature as many modern job interviews. So discrimination is doing very well right now also and hardly anyone is noticing. People on average love slavery, I must conclude.

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UK will not apologise for role in slavery at Commonwealth summit
In 2006, Tony Blair called the slave trade a “crime against humanity” in an article in New Nation but fell short of issuing an apology, despite pressure from campaigners and the archbishop of York.

Labour’s decision to maintain the stance of previous Conservative governments that reparations are not even an issue to be discussed risks angering some Commonwealth countries before the summit.
Slavery is a crime against humanity, but let's say nobody is/was guilty of it.

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Reply #13
I find it hard to believe that adults think about this... Shouldn't someone -more importantly- "apologize" for Original Sin!? :)
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