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Slaves out numbered their owners great and one of the most famous revolts was ran by Spartacus. He had an army of 90,000 and they defeated two Roman armies before Spartacus was killed in battle.
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Greece had questions about slavery but they never did anyhting about it. Captives, victims, and sometimes family members were made into slaves. They suffered badly. Greeks had almost complete power over their slaves.
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The slaves overruled and ran Egypt. The Mamluks, were Turks brought to Egypt in 1200. After seizing power, they conquered several contries. They lost 67 years later.
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Africans and European indentured slaves lived most of the same life except that the IS were granted their freedom. African slaves were forced to serve for life.
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Klamath, Pawnee, Yurok, Creek, Mandan, and Comanche had small numbers of slaves.
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This Catholic monk stopped the slaughtering of inslaved Native Americans
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The French and British plantion owners forced their slaves to work very hard. They worked them to death. Planters brought Africans to the islands to work on the plantaions after the normal workers refused.
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They inslaved Hebrews, Babylonians, and their other captives. Slaves worked in the Pharoah's palace. They took after Joseph, who is famous for his many colored coat (Joseph and the Amazing Tecnicolored Dreamcoat). Later Jospeh and Moses lead the slaves out of eygpt and into freedom.
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Slave gradually became less and less free. Their owners now had the ablity to kill them, beat them, sell them. They were not treated very well at all. They were taken of their freedom as a human being.
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The Spanish's silver and gold mines needed mining, they needed help on their farms, and they needed the extra labor around the house. The Spansish took in Native Americans and inslaved them. The Indians suffered severely from English diseases. A monk realzed what was happening and made a gentler treatment for the Indians.
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The Portuguese needed slaves from their sugar plantation and gold silver mines. At first they inslaved the Indians, but soon they too turned to the Africans.
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The Spanish still needed someone to do their work. They started looking and eventually took in Africans. Africans were already ammune to diseases.
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By the 1700s there were less slaves than free blacks.
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By the 1700s almost 100,000 Africans were imported to take over the hard jobs the Europeans refused to do.
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They shipped huge numbers of Africans to the English, French, and Spanish colonies that had settled in the Americas.
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Some of the people in Britaian began to protest against slavery. They beleived that every man was free.
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Finally slavery was outlawed in England.
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The revolt against St. Domingue was a success and the world's first black republic was established.
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Brazil had 2 million slaves by the 1800s. Slaves, mainly Africans, were half of Brazil's population.
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Africans consumed 90% of Zanzibar's population.
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The Abolition Act ended the British slave trade.
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By this time many pantations and farms were left in charge of overseers. They had no financial reason to keep the slaves healthy. They treated them badly, this resulted in slaves having an average life span of 7 years.
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The British public turned against slavery and then tried to end slavery in Europe and the Americas.
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The Emancipation Act abolished slavery in every British colony.
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There are 8 million slaves in Asia. 25% to 33% is made up of slaves.
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The Brazilian Slave Trade finally ended. But all the slaves were not freed until 1888.
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Northern states of Europe started shipping Africans off to American to start the slavery that we are familiar with. Nearly 4,000,000 slaves in the counrty by this time.
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The American civil War was faught over slavery. During this time Abe Lincoln passed a law that freed all slaves from rebel states, In 1865 the North's win brought slavery to and end throughout the entire United States.
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Finally all the slaves in Brazil were freed.
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They have had slavery for thousands of year and still currently have slavery in Asia.
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Completely abolished in 1910, but there continued to be problems.
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Wang Mang abolished slavery but then it reatablished 7 years later.
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The empire of Rome could not have been built without help from slaves. Although slavery also may have been what caused their downfall.
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Forced labor slavery had started. Prisoners were worked to death and those to weak to work were killed.
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Nazi inslaved many of people in the 1940s. Many people were sent to concentration camps.
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Over 700,000 people were inslaved. The slave camps were part of a larger Nazi extermination effort. Many people were methodically killed.
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Still now in Asia, children are sold. Young men and women are forced into prostitution. They have no personal rights in Asia.
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Many Romans worked their own famrs. But later the Punic Wars changed that. Romans began enslaving enemy captives. This made them into a slave-based society.
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There was slavery in Africa way before the europeans even came to look for more slaves. Land was owned by communities. The slave belonged to the family. Being a slave was not a lifetime status. Slaves were made up of captives, criminals, and people in debt.