HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 8: Involuntary Servitude, Child Abandonment, Serfdom

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

Document Summary

Two basic elements: individuals are treated as property, for all intents and purposes. Implies and owner and the owner can do whatever they wish to do with their property: individuals are forced into exploitative labor. Slavery is a common element in all cultures and time periods. Slavery in the ancient world: link between slavery today and slavery in the ancient world, slaves existed in large numbers in the ancient world and was practiced by all societies including egypt, persia, china, greece, and rome. 13th amendment: neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist within the united states, or any place subject to their jurisdiction. One of the characteristic features of modern slavery is that africa became the main. A political, economic, and cultural link was established between africa and the supply of slaves.