“I was now persuaded that I had got into a world of bad spirits and that they were going to kill me.”Olaudah Equiano was one of the 15 million slaves.A slave is a person totally subject to his/her owner’s will.He/she could be bought and sold,traded or leased.Slavery was not fully and legally recognized until 1600s.Most slaves were free people who were captured in wars,kidnapped,sold by relatives or superiors,sold to pay debts,enslaved as punishment for certain crimes or sold for food in famines;therefore,what,indeed, fired the notion of slavery and how come did enslavement become so common in the birth of New World?
As the sugar,tobacco and cotton plantations expanded,”Negro
“It is a known fact that prisoners of war in Africa,are the slaves of conquerors..”(p.34)When the weak warrior loses the battle,he also loses his liberty and once he becomes a slave his chldren are brought up in the same state of slavery.Beyond that,Africa faced an important technical innovation;firearms.These imported firearms used by slave sellers seem to have served mainly the purpose of slave-gathering and fighting battles,which was a fairly less effective reason to purchase a firearm under those conditions.On the other hand, it is believed that Europeans,by supplying firearms,applied indirect military pressure on Africans;in other words, controlled the “means of production”.They indirectly forced Africans to wage wars and caused them to enslave more people tha
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