HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Sexual Slavery, Serfdom, Middle Passage

• School: York University
• Department: Human Rights and Equity Studies
• Course: HREQ 2010
• Professor: Paul Brienza

Document Summary

Against the notion of extending any rights to slaves. Very much against the idea of extending rights to women and those of the lowest classes. Liberalism, as a project, was not complete or ideal system. Spreading into the world in an aggressive manner. Progressive notions in place, coexisting with some of the most brutal forms of enslavement and inequality that takes place at the same time. The most brutal form of treatment of any group in the modern age, with the exception of. Aboriginal peoples in north america, which has much to do with different ideas. In many ways, slavery is the engine of the modern capitalist age, as it makes it possible for various reasons. Long tradition of slavery that stretches through virtually every human society. Societies like egypt, persia, china, greece, and rome, all had forms of slavery. They had higher levels of society than the modern world.