HI114 Lecture Notes - Debt Bondage, Middle Passage
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Slavery is the permanent, violent domination of natally alienated and generally dishonored persons . 3 aspects of power: social and violence, cultural and authority, psychological and perception you can alter someone"s own perception of their best interest. People do things as they believe it is in their best interest. Slavery = almost total power of the master and almost total powerless of the slave. Stripped of their own name, given slave master"s name. Slavery is a long history, all different cultures, religions have practiced slavery. Bible tells us there was slavery in ancient israel, greeks enslaved. War - (prizes of war included slaves) Household gain / debt -(may be sold into slavery) Kidnapped - (kidnapped in order to be sold to portuguese to be used in slave trade) 1502 1860"s: 9,00,000 african slaves across the atlantic. 41% to brazil brazil becomes huge producer of sugar. (sugar is main slavery task)
