Slavery in Greece Rome and Africa

The issue of slavery has been debated since its early inception. In recent times, there has been considerable debate as to the definition of slavery. Western scholars have attempted to justify slavery of the New World by comparing it to the slavery that existed in Biblical times as well as Greco-Roman and African slavery. Some argue that there can be no international definition of slavery. Others try to define by a few words that apply to every instance of slavery. The only true way to define slavery is according to each society in which it was based.

Webster’s dictionary defines slavery submission to a dominating influence or the state of a person who is a chattel of another. Though Webster’s gives this very general definition, there are many other meanings that may come to a person’s mind depending on the region of the world that one is speaking of. In Rome, there were different forms of slavery and slavery was not based on any particular thing such as color. Where did these slaves come from? It has been said that “slaves are either born or made.” During the Republican period one of the principal sources of slaves had been prisoners of war. There was significant number of Jewish slaves acquired as a result of the crushi

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Murray, John, A Dictionary of Greek and Roman Antiquities,

London: 1875. Children born to the slave after the contract are born free. They usually called out to the crowd. The windows were too high from the ground to be touched by the hand. Another group of slaves who rose to positions of great power, the military slaves, were normally liberated at some stage in their career, and their offspring were therefore free and not slaves.

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Sikainga, Ahmad “Slavery and Muslim Jurisprudence in Morrocco”

in Slavery and Abolition, Special Issue: Slavery and Colonial Rule in Africa, ed. While there were cases of harsh treatment of slaves, the condition of their enslavement was not based on the color of their skin.

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Martin, Dale, Slavery as Salvation: The Metaphor of Slavery in

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