Slavery In Asia

In Asia women slaves were still sold in the Ottoman Empire as late as 1908. There were also slaves markets for captured Russian and Persian slaves centred in Central Asia. There were an estimated 8 million or 9 million slaves in India in 1841 according to Sir Henry Bartle Frere. Slavery was abolished in both Hindu and Muslim India by the Indian Slavery Act V. of 1843. Slavery was also abolished in China in 1906 by the Imperial government in East Asia but the law became effective in 1910. There was a Slave rebellion in China in the end of the 17th century and the beginning of the 18th century which was so extensive that owners eventually converted the institution into a female dominated one. There were also slaves in Southeast Asia in which a quarter to a third of the population were slaves in that area. Some areas were Thailand and Bruma which had slaves in the Southeast section.

Slavery In Africa

About a third of the Islamic states of the western Sudan were slaves including Ghana, Mali, and Segou. Between 1300 and 1900 about one-third of the population of Senegambia were enslaved as well. Also in the 19th century  about half of the population in Sierra Leone was also consisted of slaves. Same went for Duala of the Cameroon, the Igbo and people who were lower, half of their population were enslaved as well. Most of all of Africa there were more than one-third were enslaved in every part also more than half their population. When the British rule came to around North Nigeria at the 20th century there were about 2 to 2.5 million people enslaved in those areas. There were also an estimated 2 million slaves in Ethiopia in the early 1930s out of a estimated population of between 8 to 16 million. A German explorer by the name of  Gustav Nachtigal believed that for every slave that was brought to a market at least 3 to 4 died on the way there. A man name Tippu Tip was one of the most famous slave traders in Eastern Africa who was also the grandson of an enslaved African. Slavery in Africa was brutal and harsh at the amount of deaths that happened and also how they were traded constantly.

Slavery In Medieval Times

Back in the Medieval Times slavery took place as well just like there was a medieval slave trade that occurred during these times. The destinations of the trade were the Byzantine Empire and the Muslim world and other important sources. There were merchants such as Viking, Arab, Greek, and Jewish who were all involved in the slave trades done during these Middle Ages. By the 10th Century the trade of European slaves grew while blacks became less popular. Egypt and Syria were also receiving large shipments of Slavs from the trades. There was constant warfare between the Muslims and the Christians which mostly took place in Medieval Spain and Portugal. In medieval Europe slavery became so popular that the Roman Catholic Church constantly and repeatedly prohibited it. Also the export of Christian slaves to non-Christian lands were prohibited as well. North African Barbary Pirates captured Christian slaves from the 11th century to the 19th century to sell at slave markets in places like Algeria and Morocco. There were also Dominican friars who arrived at the Spanish settlement at Santo Domingo who also did not allow the enslavement of local Indians. Large numbers of slaves were brought into the Islamic world due to the Byzantine-Ottoman wars and the Ottoman wars in Europe.

Slavery In Ancient Times

Slavery has been around for many years in civilizations as old as Sumer. It was also in every other civilization like  Ancient Egypt, Ancient China, the Akkadian Empire, Assyria, Ancient India, Ancient Greece, the Roman Empire, the Islamic Caliphate, and the  pre-Columbian civilizations of the Americas. All of these were a mixture of debt-slavery, punishment for crime, the enslavement of prisoners of war, child abandonment, and the birth of slave children to slaves. In Ancient Greece, Aristotle the philosopher accepted the idea of natural slavery which meant that some men were slaves by nature. The Roman Republic also as they expanded their empire used everyone they conquered as slaves. Many like Greeks, Illyrians, Berbers, Germans, Britons, Thracians, Gauls, Jews, Arabs, and many more were slaves not only used to work but to use for amusement as well (gladiators and sex slaves). When the slaves would be put down and embarrassed it all usually led to slave revolts against the oppression. Examples of those revolts would be the Roman Servile Wars, also the Third Servile War being the most famous and severe led by Spartacus. An estimate of over 25% of Ancient Rome was enslaved and also 35% of Italy's population was enslaved.

Slavery In America

Slavery has been around for many years in America and was a big issue. This was a legal institution for more than a Century in North America until the United States was founded in 1776. Slavery continued mostly down South until the 13th Amendment was added to the Constitution in 1865. Virginia was the first English colony in North America to import slaves in 1619. Most slaves were black and had white owners. Native Americans and free blacks also owned slaves as well. There were a small number of white slaves also. There was mostly Slavery spread in the areas where there was good-quality soil for growing crops. Most of the slaveholders were in the southern part of the United States. Slaves would work on the plantations meanwhile being watched by managerial class called overseers which were usually white men. From the 16th to the 19th centuries about 12 million African slaves were shipped to the Americas. Of those 12 million about 645,000 were brought to what is now known as the United States. By the 1860 United States Census, the slave population grew to about 4 million in the United States. This was a very big political issue in politics of the United States from the 1770s to the 1860s.