opinoins on slavery in the new world?
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The 1926 Slavery Convention described slavery as "...the status or condition of a person over whom any or all of the powers attaching to the right of ownership are exercised..." Therefore, slaves cannot leave an owner or employer without explicit permission, and they will be returned if they escape. Therefore a system of slavery — as opposed to the isolated instances found in any society — requires official, legal recognition of ownership, or widespread tacit arrangements with local authorities, by masters who have some influence because of their social and/or economic status.\n\nThe word slave comes from the Latin term sclavus, which is thought to have originally referred to slavs, people from Eastern Europe, including parts of the Byzantine empire. The current usage of the word serfdom is not usually synonymous with slavery, because serfs are considered to have had some rights. In the strictest sense of the word, "slaves" are people who are not only owned, but who have no rights and are also not paid.\n\nThe International Labour Organization defines "forced labour" as "all work or service which is extracted from any person under the menace of any penalty and for which the said person has not offered himself voluntarily", albeit with certain exceptions: military service, convicts, emergencies and minor community services. [1]. The ILO asserts that child labour amounts to forced labour in which the child's work is exacted from the family as a whole.\n\nIn some historical contexts, compulsory labour to repay debts by adults has been regarded as slavery, depending upon the rights held by such individuals.\n\nMandatory military service in liberal democracies is a controversial subject: one view is that conscripts are not "slaves", as they have substantial legal rights, and any government which took it upon itself to implement conscription, outside a time of extreme national emergency, would eventually face a backlash at an election. Another view interprets acceptance of conscription as a sign of chauvinist, ultra-nationalist and/or fascist ideologies, justified by philosophies such as the Hegelian notion of nations having rights which supersede those of individuals.\n\nIn United States legal usage, the term involuntary servitude means a condition of labouring for another without one's willful consent. It does not necessarily mean the complete lack of freedom found in chattel slavery.\n\nMany left wing thinkers have discussed the idea of "wage slavery", although it is generally accepted that payment of a wage signifies "free labour", with the quite different disadvantages experienced by such workers.\n\nOrdinary citizens in totalitarian states are not generally considered slaves, as the only real point of comparison is restrictions on movement.
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Read "Roots" by Alex Haley. You will learn alot about slaves and how much they were bought an sold for over the course of many generations.
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Slavery has been around way before the Americas were found. Egyptians built their pyramids from slave labor. Ignorance is bliss and you are the most blissful person I've seen in a while.
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slaves:\nDelaware, Georgia, Maryland, South Carolina, Virginia, north Carolina, Kentucky, Tennessee, Louisiana Mississippi, Alabama\n\nfree:\nNew Jersey, Pennsylvania, Connecticut, Massachusetts,\nNew Hampshire, New York, Rhode Island, Vermont, Ohio, \nIndiana, Illinois
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Wow - that's a tough question to answer without sounding racist or radical.  \n\n(especially after we went to war believeing that slavery is wrong)\n\nSlavery has always provided a form of free labor.  When you use a race that you believe is inferior you don't have to worry about cost or feeding or even the working conditions as slaves are expendable.\n\nHowever once you get into that topic, you are putting a price on a human life (which is close to 2.3 billion dollars if you add the cost of the chemicals used to make up a human).
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Since before recorded history.  There has been evidence of slavery found in the fossil record.
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slavery still exists. its just in a different form. there are slaves here in america and in other parts of the world. i am surprised u never heard of it. there are woman who come into this country with a promised job as a "maid" and when they get over here their employer takes their passports and keeps their wages. which is slavery.
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Probably not in the way that would be most satisfying for people like you and I. We live in a very frustrating time. We must keep reminding ourselves that is may take a hundred years, but historians will one day look back on this as a more than a mistake, but an actual act of terror perpetrated by the United States. \n\nFuture students will look back on it with the same kind of shame with which we view slavery.
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A lot of people already said this, but I'm going to chime in with my two cents too.  \n\nNo.  People who didn't do anything wrong should not be forced to pay reparations to people who never had anything wrong done to them.  \n\nFurther, if it was 1870, and former slaves and slaveholders existed then MAYBE you could make a case for having the slaveholders make reparations for the slaves (probably not because what they were doing was, while morally wrong, perfectly legal).  But as it stands right now, all former slaves are dead.  All former slaveholders are dead.  It's moot.
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Many of the slaves that came to America were sold into slavery by other Africans.  Slavery went on long before it was a part of American history, and still goes on today in Third World countries.  \n\nIt goes to show that skin color doesn't matter, that we're all human, and as humans we can be pretty un-evolved and low if we choose to be.  People around the world are greedy and uncompassionate and will do almost anything to each other for money.  \n\nOf course what will stop slavery is when human rights, civil rights and economic power are granted to everyone, and that means men and women equally, and also to all races equally.  Those who are lower on the power scale have to keep fighting for their rights, since power is always taken, never given.  \n\nHope this helps.  Cheers, K (teacher and traveler who has yet to go to Africa but wants to)
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www.cbsnews.com/stories/2005/\n03/23/world/main682673.shtml\n\n www.pbs.org/wgbh/pages/\nfrontline/slaves \n\nmsnbc.msn.com/id/\n3042166 \n\narchives.cnn.com/2001/\nWORLD/europe/03/08/\nwomen.trafficking \n\nedition.cnn.com/2003/\nWORLD/asiapcf/southeast/\n11/27/thailand.sex.ap \n\nwww.suntimes.com/\nspecial_sections\n/traffic/\ncst-nws-traffic07.html \n\nboston.com/news/nation/\narticles\n/.../\nbush_assails_cuba_over_\nsex_trade \n\nnews.bbc.co.uk/2/hi/europe/\n3686173.stm \n\nwww.usatoday.com/news/world/\n2003-06-12-sex-trade_x.htm \n\nwww.american.edu/projects/\nmandala/TED/myansex.htm \n\nthebatt.com/.../Opinion/\nU.n-Must.Stop.Foreign.Sex.\nTrade-518085.shtml \n\nwww.cbsnews.com/stories/\n2003/02/24/world/\nmain541762.shtml \n\nwww.uri.edu/artsci/wms/\nhughes/iran_sex_slave_trade \n\nwww.cbc.ca/toronto/story/\nto_sex-trade20060223.\nhtml?ref=rss \n\nwww.sextradeworkersof\ncanada.com\n/home/terms.asp \n\nnews.bbc.co.uk/1/hi/world/\n1038877.stm \n\nboston.com/news/nation\n/.../10/31/\ncampaigner_against_sex\n_trade_honored \n\nwww.prisonplanet.com/\namerican_firm_in_bosnia\n_sex_trade_row.html \n\nwww.usatoday.com/news/\nnation/\n2001/09/10/sex-trade.htm \n\nwww.asiapacificms.com/\narticles/nepal_sex_trade \n\nwww.worldnetdaily.com/\nnews/\narticle.asp?ARTICLE_ID\n=26296 \n\nwww.stanford.edu/class/e297b/\nThe Worldwide Sex Slave\n Trade.doc \n\nocala.com/apps/pbcs.dll/\narticle?AID=/\n20060620/OPINION\n/.../OPINION01 \n\nwww.infowars.com/print/\nnwo/\nun_nato_sexslaves.htm \n\nwww.uri.edu/artsci/wms/\nhughes/\nsex_trade_ring \n\nwww.hawaii.edu/global/\nprojects_activities/\nTrafficking/Sex_Trade.pdf \n\nwww.utne.com/webwatch/\n2005_197/\nnews/11657-1.html \n\nconservativegoddess\n.redstate.com/story/\n2006/2/11/4401/22990 \n\nwww.csmonitor.com/\n2005/0511/\np15s02-woeu.html
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i have several times..brought some friends along for some trips. In this area we have acient colonial plantation and slave houses just scatterd every where. Some are deep in over grown forrests others are lucky they survived the paving of the new raods they are so close.\nI really enjoy the sights of those old old houses...so much history...but it feels like there are the ghosts of the previous owners watching your every move..not quite hostile yet but wary...enough to give you prickles up your neck.\nAnd how could it be illegal if no one has lived in it for ages upon ages? I mean really why waste the history lesson of how people lived.\nThen the next adventure is to wander into the family grave yards and try make out the dates and writing on the stones...
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Excellent points!  We're always being told that our ancestors enslaved them, but we're never told that our ancestors also fought and died to free them.  It's been 140 years since there was slavery.  There are so many programs to help black people, at the expense of white people.  Its about time black people quit looking for excuses and try to make it like I know they can.  And don't start calling me prejudice cause I aint!
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The Bible is true and anyone who says it's fiction needs to shut up. And slavery sucks black people have been slaves since 1600 and still we are not treated like fair. Some white people treat us blacks great but most are racists, rednecks, or hillbilles. Now slavery isn't great at all. When blacks were slaves the white people depended on them because they did all the work well they did everything. Now why don't people get a maid or a waiter they aren't slaves and they can quit at anytime.
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The slave trade has been going on since before written history and continues to this very day.In days of old it was common practice to enslave a defeated enemy, in some civilizations you could even enslave someone for owing a debt. Civilization as we know it was built by slaves, ancient Eygpt, Persia, Geece, Rome, all built by slaves, at one point or another every group has been both the slave and the master. The african slave trade is by no means unique, slavery has been a fact of life in Africa since the beginning, slaves were always valued spoils of war among fighting tribes,Anyone that thinks the slave trade started because a boatload of europeans sailed down to Africa and started rounding up peaceful natives is sadly mistaken, at the time when european nations were getting involved in the slave trade there exsisted on the \nafrican continent a number of very large and powerful kingdoms, each with a large and powerful army, slaves were just one of a number of traded commodities, it should be noted that at the time when europeans were trading for slaves to sell in the americas, arab and african pirates were raiding european coastal villages for white slaves to sell in northern africa. There is no innocent guilt-free party here, everyone has blood on there hands. The slave trade in Africa continues to this day, why doesn't anyone talk about that? Slavery in america is a disgrace this country has to deal with, as are the segregation years that followed. This is still a fresh wound for america, slavery exsisted for three hundred years before the civil war and it's only been fifty years since the civil rights movement, we still have a long way to go, but giving away money doesn't solve anything, if you want to throw money at the problem throw it at education, health care, job training, things that actually do some good.I am not responsible for the sins of my forefathers, I cannot affect the past, only the future,personally, I think we need to spend more energy working on tomorrow than crying about yesterday.
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U.S. "legalized" slavery may have ended in 1861, but please do not let us fool ourselves -- slavery, in many forms, still exists today . . . and I'm not talking "slave to my job" kind either.    :-(
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I can tell you that my mother, whose family used to own slaves, believed that the Bible supported slavery.  There was an interpretation that Blacks were descended from the sons of Noah who laughed at their father's nakedness when he fell asleep drunk in the vineyard.\n\nCalvinism held that God ordained that some were meant to rule, and some to serve.  Some would be chosen to enter the Kingdom of God, and some would be shut out, sent to Hell.  Catholics believed some souls which didn't have so much sin accumulated, could serve some "hard time" in purgatory, expiating and doing penance for the sins, until such time as God felt they were ready to enter the Kingdom of Heaven.  This was, I think most people believed, on Judgement Day.\n\nThen, you must recall that churches were supported with the monies (contributions) of plantation owners, business owners, and anyone else who owned or benefited from slavery.\n\nAs a Christian, I believe slavery is wrong, period.  But we live, at least here in the United States, Canada, and other parts of the English speaking free world, in more enlightened times. Or do we?  Human Rights Watch reports there are more slaves in the world now than there were the last year of legal slavery in the US, when Abraham Lincoln declared the signing of the Emancipation Act (1863).