Homework Help

[Occhidiangela]

De-lurking for a moment here, I'm doing a project in school, specifically a timeline of slavery, and I was just wondering of the likes of Doc could help me.  I'm just looking for a couple of important dates on the topic of slavery, and maybe some interesting ones that might catch someones attention.

*Slips on ninja shirt*

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I recommend you start in the Old Testament, and the guidelines in Mosaic law on how slaves should be treated.

Move to Roman and Caliphate slavery norms, then, if you want to impress your teacher, cover how the Asians and South Asians (Chinese and Indians) treated the institution of slavery.

Back to the Levant, the East African Slave trade, then over to the White Slavery in the Ottoman Empire, and a smooth transition to the importation of African slaves into the Americas by the Spanish and Portuguese when the Aboriginals proved to hold up badly under slavery. Segue into the English and Dutch slavery network in the New World, the institution in America, and the British led effort to shut down the African slave trade (using the Royal Navy as a primary tool) that began in the early 1800's. That will tie in nicely to the compromise (3/5ths in the US Constitution) that allowed slavery to be legal as of 1789, and gets you to a root economic and social cause of the US Civil War, aided and abetted by the industrial revolution. Follow up with the formal end of Slavery in America (though not globally) in the late 19th century.

If you really want to wow your teacher, point out that under current American law, a person can be a ward of the state, essentially property of the state, but can not be property of any another person, until said other person marries him and then, of course, owns him. :lol: Or was that PWNS him? :shuriken:

Occhi