Category: Slavery in the World

Slavery played a big role in the 1800s. Through the 17th and 18th centuries, many people had been kidnapped, mostly from Africa, and forced to work in America. They were mainly used for the productions of tobacco and cotton. Slavery could vary and be different depending on certain colonies and the slaveholder. Native Americans didnt…

African Americans for decades have been confuted from humanity, refused the right to a normal life, freedom and the pursuit of happiness as a direct result of racism birthed by slavery. Slavery was once seen as a way of life in the colonial era when white people felt that it was necessary for economic growth…

In order to determine if the slaves of Greek and Roman societies would endorse the Stoics views on slavery, we must first examine what place in society Stoics regarded slaves and how they defined one’s freedom. The Stoics primarily taught that one should seek to be unshackled from his passions through the development of self-control…

The subject of British Abolitionism has long been controversial, complex, and even baffling. Britain moved quickly from being the worlds leading purchaser and transporter of African slaves to the total outlawing of its slave trade in 1807. In 1823, the Nation took steps to protect and ameliorate the condition of slaves in its colonies. An…

Slavery, when we hear this word the first thing that comes in mind, is a person that can be a woman, man or a kid forced to work without his or her willingness. It can be anything from a kid working as a domestic worker, a man working as labor, because of debts, human trafficking,…

One hundred fifty years ago, Abraham Lincoln signed the Emancipation Proclamation to put an end to slavery. According to the Britannica, slavery is a condition in which one human being was owned by another. Although its illegal now, there are many different kinds of slavery still present today such as sex trafficking, child marriage, forced…

Perhaps among the many global issues we face today, modern slavery is undeniably one of the most vile and unfortunate problems in the world affecting millions. While many people do not realize the magnitude of this global problem, slavery affects individuals all over the world given that it exists in almost every country and takes…

In the 1800s the African population was able to accomplish a feat no other race had accomplished in America. They had abolished something so ordinary at the time, that in todays era could be looked at as ordinary as using telephones. Although ordinary at the time, slavery constantly caused so much irreversible damage to families…

Inikoris initial estimates of slave voyages accounting for 63 percent of premiums earned by the British marine insurance industry has been corrected and new estimates argue that it was only 7 percent . However, these new estimates only account for the insurance premiums of ships merely transporting slaves but does not account for insurance premiums…

During the 1700s and a large portion of the 1800s, slavery was a huge issue in the United States. There were many reasons for this, such as the inhabilita of the state and federal government to come to an agreement, but it was mainly because of the minds of northerners and southerners who wouldnt change…