HIST 1377 Lecture Notes - Lecture 3: Primitive Culture, Atlantic Slave Trade, Indentured Servant
25 Apr 2018
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Before the trans-atlantic slave trade: ancient versus modern slavery notes. 1: general point, to fully understand american slavery it is essential to compare the forms of servitude before the 15th century (ancient slavery) with modern slavery that evolved with the. Age of discovery beginning in the 15th century. Americans) the economic significance of african slavery and role it played in the early development of the new world and growth of capitalism, it is unlikely. Europeans nations could have settled america and exploited its resources without. The chinese had no reservations about enslaving foreigners, koreans, turks, persians, and indonesians. The chinese even viewed the persians as black but held a particular contempt for dark-skinned barbarians of the islands south of china whose inferiority was evident by their nakedness and primitive culture. Because the chinese feared pollution from inferior blood, foreign slaves were strictly prohibited from sexual relations with native chinese women.
