Slavery - AJ

• India has the largest population in the modern world with over 14 million slaves.  Slavery an economic system. In it, some people must work for no pay. It is also a system of ownership. In many countries slaves were owned by citizens of the country. These people were slaves. There is evidence that even before there was writing, there was slavery. 
•  There have been different types of slavery, and they have been in almost all cultures and continents. Some societies had laws about slavery, or they had an economy that was built on it. Ancient Greece and Ancient Rome had many slaves. During the 20th century almost all countries made laws forbidding slavery. The Universal declaration of Human  rights says that slavery is wrong. Slavery is now banned by international law.Nevertheless, there are still different forms of slavery in some countries.
• The English word "slave" comes from the medeivals word for the Slavic peoples of Central Europe and Eastern Europe, because these were the last ethnic group to be captured and enslaved in Central Europe. According to Adam Smith and Auguste Comte, a slave was mainly defined as a captive or prisoner of war. Slave-holders used to buy slaves at slave auctions. Slaves are not allowed rights.
• For four centuries, beginning in the late 15th century, millions of Africans were taken as slaves by Europeans. The Europeans were not the first to exploit Africa for manpower. Beginning in about 650 AD Arab slave traders began taking slaves from Africa. They dealt mainly in castrated male slaves (enuchs). According to Ronald Segal , author of Islam’s Black Slaves: The Other Black Diaspora (2002), "The calipha in Baghdad at the beginning of the 10th Century had 7,000 black eunuchs and 4,000 white eunuchs in his palace”.
•  By the 1900s, Arab slave traders had taken between 10 and 20 million slaves out of Africa. It is not certain that European slave traders obtained black slaves from the Arab slave traders. The Arabs concentrated mainly on supplying their own needs. Europeans began exporting Africans to the New World as a source of cheap labor on colonial plantations.Between 1452 and 1455, Pope Nicolas V issued a series of Papal bulls authorizing the Portuguese to take African slaves. At first slave traders raided costal areas and carried black people off. But the mines and fields of the colonies needed more and more slaves.