HIST 370 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Atlantic Slave Trade, Kordofanian Languages, Afroasiatic Languages
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Lecture week 3: slave trade in africa and the atlantic slave trade: west africa (west african coast, slavery was present in africa even before the europeans came to enslave them. the working/labor conditions of slaves in africa were much different. In africa, slaves before the european form of slavery were more like indentured servants and could earn/buy freedom back. Some customaries of african slavery was that the slave of the family, after serving several years, became an equal part of the family. Unlike in european slavery, slavery in africa was temporary and not lifetime cruel labor. Conditions of african slavery were more humane (no violence of whips and physical abuse, also no cruelty of any kind in african slavery) as to say and was not an inherited status (ex. Throughout these regions, many were small villages with distinct tribal dialects, while others were larger urban populations.
