SOSC 2480 Lecture 7: Week 7 - Lecture - Slavery and the Slave Trade
8 Nov 2016
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Week 7 - lecture - slavery and the slave trade. Debate to the degree in which africans are their own agents. Religion often reinforces forms of power - dynasties make claims to power through scripture. Slavery was not a new institution anywhere on either side (supply versus demand) - number of civilizations throughout the world engaged in it. Peru, china, india, iran, iraq, france, russia, different parts of africa. Slavery was never unique to africa, or islam, or christianity - was largely an universal institution. Autonomous africa - africa before the determinations others placed upon it. The peculiar institution: slavery before the rise of the atlantic trade. Slavery has been in existence for thousands of years - institution of servitude evident in many ancient texts. Slavery out of africa was not only the transatlantic slave trade - eg. slavery out of east africa into middle east (oman, qatar, yemen, iraq, iran, saudi arabia, even into india and pakistan)
