HREQ 2010 Lecture Notes - Lecture 7: Forced Marriage, Natural Product, Sexual Slavery
10 May 2016
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Week 7 lecture- liberalism and its contradictions i: slavery. How do we define slavery: two basic elements are needed for us to speak of slavery": In fact, they are, for all intents and purposes, property. This implies an owner and it also implies that the owner can do whatever he or she wishes with his or her property. 2: unfortunately, slavery is a common element in all cultures and time periods. Slavery in the ancient world: often scholars and others interested in tracing the roots of the modern world, talk of the link between slavery today and slavery in the ancient world. Slaves existed in large numbers in the ancient world and was practiced by virtually all societies including egypt, persia, china, greece and rome. Types of slavery in the ancient world: debt bondage, punishment for crime, enslavement of prisoners of war, child abandonment. 5) intergenerational slaves (in the ancient world this form was less severe)
