Slavery In Ancient Greece
Class: Writing Seminar
Date: 12/02/2013
Slavery
Slavery has been around ever since the dawn of time and still exists today. Western slavery goes back 10.000 years ago, in todays Iraq also know as Mesopotamia (Godrej, Dinyar, 2001). A male slave was used for working purpose and female slaves were used mostly for sexual services. Even in ancient Greece there was existence of slavery where they used only women and children as slaves for domestic work instead of rebellious men that got slaughter (Godrej, Dinyar, 2001). With the growth of the Greece civilization caused a growth in slavery as well, we could say that with increasing population of the ancient Greece and in the Roman Empire caused an increase in slavery. …show more content…
There were several ways you could become a slave in Rome, many of them similar to how you could become a slave in Greece. One interesting thing was that, in Rome, if you owed money to the government and couldn’t pay it back you would work as a slave even if you owed anybody money (John, Simkin, 1991). As the Roman Empire grew so did the number of slaves. The growing number of slaves was not a problem to Rome since generals used to send thousands of slaves to the market. This allowed them to prosper greatly (John, Simkin, 1991). In Rome slaves could potentially buy their freedom from their master by paying them the same amount of money they were purchased for. A wealthy master often had up to 500 laborers at his disposal while an emperor could have up to 20,000 laborers and servants (Chris, Trueman, 2000). However, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Rome became a republic but that didn’t stop slavery. Since Christianity approved slavery and many priest and lords had slaves themselves (Dr. Peter Heather, …show more content…
When they arrived in Bahamas friendly, peaceful people called the Lucayans, Taínos and Arawaks inhabited the islands. Columbus was impressed by they’re hard working abilities that he immediately settled down there and enslaved the natives and made them work in his gold mines (Eric Kasum 2011). After 2 years half of the natives were dead and the rest were enslaved. In 1619 a Dutch ship lead by Edwin Sandy arrived to North America with carrying African slaves (Lisa, Vox, 2009). Edwin Sandy sold 23 slaves to John Rolf in Virginia because his crew ship was starving for food. Thirty-five years later that number increased and there were 950 African slaves in Virginia. In the 17th century the British instituted slavery in their new American
Date: 12/02/2013
Slavery
Slavery has been around ever since the dawn of time and still exists today. Western slavery goes back 10.000 years ago, in todays Iraq also know as Mesopotamia (Godrej, Dinyar, 2001). A male slave was used for working purpose and female slaves were used mostly for sexual services. Even in ancient Greece there was existence of slavery where they used only women and children as slaves for domestic work instead of rebellious men that got slaughter (Godrej, Dinyar, 2001). With the growth of the Greece civilization caused a growth in slavery as well, we could say that with increasing population of the ancient Greece and in the Roman Empire caused an increase in slavery. …show more content…
There were several ways you could become a slave in Rome, many of them similar to how you could become a slave in Greece. One interesting thing was that, in Rome, if you owed money to the government and couldn’t pay it back you would work as a slave even if you owed anybody money (John, Simkin, 1991). As the Roman Empire grew so did the number of slaves. The growing number of slaves was not a problem to Rome since generals used to send thousands of slaves to the market. This allowed them to prosper greatly (John, Simkin, 1991). In Rome slaves could potentially buy their freedom from their master by paying them the same amount of money they were purchased for. A wealthy master often had up to 500 laborers at his disposal while an emperor could have up to 20,000 laborers and servants (Chris, Trueman, 2000). However, after the collapse of the Roman Empire, Rome became a republic but that didn’t stop slavery. Since Christianity approved slavery and many priest and lords had slaves themselves (Dr. Peter Heather, …show more content…
When they arrived in Bahamas friendly, peaceful people called the Lucayans, Taínos and Arawaks inhabited the islands. Columbus was impressed by they’re hard working abilities that he immediately settled down there and enslaved the natives and made them work in his gold mines (Eric Kasum 2011). After 2 years half of the natives were dead and the rest were enslaved. In 1619 a Dutch ship lead by Edwin Sandy arrived to North America with carrying African slaves (Lisa, Vox, 2009). Edwin Sandy sold 23 slaves to John Rolf in Virginia because his crew ship was starving for food. Thirty-five years later that number increased and there were 950 African slaves in Virginia. In the 17th century the British instituted slavery in their new American