HISTORY 40A Lecture Notes - Lecture 14: Royal African Company, Unfree Labour, New African
26 Oct 2016
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Origins of new world slavery: old world (ancient institution) Midterm important: many ways to become slave, status of slave in society varied sometimes: had rights, protected by law, not permanent condition. In 15th century world: various forms of compulsion and dependency the more common kind of social relationship. Freedom or free labor an emerging idea: slavery not new. Number of ways to become a slave: number of ways to become a slave. Irony: just at the time when free labor emerging as a concept in western thought and in what becomes the united states, the worst form of unfree labor developing throughout the new. In 15th century slavery not new for europeans or africans. For centuries involved in overland system, provided trading nations with soldiers, household servants, agricultural laborers, and skilled laborers. You can became a slave in a number of ways: outsider or infidel, captured in war, volunteer to obtain money for family.
