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1863 BCE
History
The first type of slavery, sometimes called "just title servitude", was inflicted on prisoners of wars, debtors, and other vulnerable people. Race-based slavery grew to immense proportions starting in the 14th century. -
1540 BCE
The slave trade
Between 1540 and 1850, slave traders transported about 15 million people from Africa to America. The traders captured many Africans, but they also traded with the tribal chiefs and gave them cloth, metal and guns in exchange for people. The traders took the slaves to the coast and put them in prisons. The slaves waited there for the slave ships to come to the port. Then, the traders put them on the ships to travel to America -
Legal rights
Depending upon the era and the country, slaves sometimes had a limited set of legal rights. For example, in the, people who deliberately killed slaves were punishable under a 1686 statute. And, as already mentioned, certain legal rights attached to the nobi in Korea, to enslaved people in various African societies, and to black female slaves in the French colony of Louisiana. Giving slaves legal rights has sometimes been a matter of morality, but also sometimes a matter of self-interest. -
The Spanish colonization of the Americas
One of the first protests against slavery came from German and Dutch Quakers in Pennsylvania in 1688. In 1777, Vermont, at the time an independent nation, became the first portion of what would become the United States to abolish slavery. -
Economics
While American slaves in 1809 were sold for around $40,000 (in inflation adjusted dollars), a slave nowadays can be bought for just $90, making replacement more economical than providing long-term care.[347] Slavery is a multibillion-dollar industry with estimates of up to $35 billion generated annually.[ -
Worldwide
In 1839, the world's oldest international human rights organization, Anti-Slavery International, was formed in Britain by Joseph Sturge, which campaigned to outlaw slavery in other countries. There were celebrations in 2007 to commemorate the 200th anniversary of the abolition of the slave trade in the United Kingdom through the work of the British Anti-Slavery Society. -
The Slaves
The slave were on the ship for about two months and the conditions were terrible. There were hundreds of men, women and children in very small rooms. The roof was about 1.5 metres high, and the slavery lay on rows of shelves. It was difficult to move, and they didn't get much food or exercise. The traders often punished the slaves very cruelly, because they wanted to frighten the slaves. -
Slavery in the United States
Peter or Gordon, a whipped slave, photo taken at Baton Rouge, Louisiana, 1863; the guilty overseer was fired. -
Early modern period
As recently as the early 1960s, Saudi Arabia's slave population was estimated at 300,000. Along with Yemen, the Saudis abolished slavery in 1962. Historically, slaves in the Arab World came from many different regions, including Sub-Saharan Africa (mainly Zanj), the Caucasus (mainly Circassians), Central Asia (mainly Tartars), and Central and Eastern Europe (mainly Saqaliba). -
APOLOGIES
On May 21, 2001, the National Assembly of France passed the Taubira law, recognizing slavery as a crime against humanity. Apologies on behalf of African nations, for their role in trading their countrymen into slavery, remain an open issue since slavery was practised in Africa even before the first Europeans arrived and the Atlantic slave trade was performed with a high degree of involvement of several African societies. -
Distribution
A report by the Walk Free Foundation in 2013, found India had the highest number of slaves, nearly 14 million, followed by China (2.9 million), Pakistan (2.1 million), Nigeria, Ethiopia, Russia, Thailand, Democratic Republic of Congo, Myanmar and Bangladesh; while the countries with the highest proportions of slaves were Mauritania, Haiti, Pakistan, India and Nepal.
