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Implications derived from Haiti and Restavek Freedom - The History of Slavery

Anon found an interesting website related to Haiti and slavery.

Takeaways from the information provided on this website are:

1. The roots of slavery can be traced back 11,000 years

2. Roots of slavery predate the written word and written history

3. First written evidence of slavery is in the Code of Hammurabi (Mesopotamia)

a. had been a common practice in the region for thousands of years.

1. Hammurabi (1792–1750 bce - see Britannica article, sauce below, for dates)

2. Birthplace of Slavery = Sumeria

3. China and India adopted slavery as late as 221 BC

4. Historically there are many ways to become a slave

a. payment of debt

b. birth into slave family

c. child abandonment

d. war

e. punishment for crime

1. historical texts indicate that ancient slaves had better existances than peasants of the time

a. regular care, food, shelter and clothing

1. during Middle Ages slavery changed dramatically due to glabal warfare, raiding and conquering

2. Medievil Slavery in Europe

a. Charlemagne consolidated Europe through war taking slaves and selling to highest bidder

b. European slaves very popular in Muslim countries

c. true beginning of global slave trade

d. Vikings taking slaves mostly in the British Isles

e. Spain and Portugal in Holy War (Christian v Muslim) - women and children enslaved on behalf of God and Allah.

Restavek Freedom - The History of Slavery

Restavek Freedom says, "Evidence suggests that the main reason for this dramatic increase was a sharp decline in the availability of indentured servants."

https://restavekfreedom.org/2018/09/11/the-history-of-slavery/

Britannica - Code of Hammurabi

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi

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1. Medievil Slavery in Asia

a. Islamic invasion of india (yr. 1001 Peshawar and Waihand) - 100,000 women children enslaved

b. China (Tang Dynasty) - took European, Jewish, Turkish, Korean, Persian, Indonesian and Aboriginal slaves

1. Slavery in the Americas

a. Indentured servants existed in Americas before 1619

b. 1619 - first 20 African slaves brought to Jamestown, VA.

c. Royal African Slave Company - remember Virginia was a colony of the British Empire at that time)

d. Sharp decline in the availability of indentured slaves may havebeen responsible for the importation of African slaves

e. highest concentration of slaves in the Americas was in the Caribbean

f. Brazil and Spanish Americas also had slaves

1. Journey to America from Africa

a. many did not survive

b. could take several weeks to several months = horrific

c. 10 to 20 million Africans brought to the Americas

1. Abolitionist Movement

a. in past many tried to free certain groups of people from slavery

b. abolitionists wanted to end slavery altogether

c. Around 1500 AD , some Western European countries ended slavery

d. Abolitionists were motivated to try to end slavery globally

e. US Civil War - 4 million Slaves 95% in south

f. according to Reskavek Freedom, the major political motive for the Civil War was to prevent slavery from expanding into the west

g. Confederate States seceded and the north wanted to preserve the Union

h. 1865 - Emancipation Proclomation, if southern slaves could make it to the north, they would be free

i. Underground Railroad

Restavek Freedom - The History of Slavery

Restavek Freedom says, "Evidence suggests that the main reason for this dramatic increase was a sharp decline in the availability of indentured servants."

https://restavekfreedom.org/2018/09/11/the-history-of-slavery/

Britannica - Code of Hammurabi

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi

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1. Modern Day Slavery

a. roughly 40.3 million people enslaved currently

b. prostitution, physical bondage, forced labor, human trafficing, debt bondage or born into slavery

c. forced labor - 25 million

d. forced marriage - 15.4 million

e. 10 million child slaves

1. most vulnerable amoung us are most likely to be enslaved

2. countiries with the highest concentration of slavery

a. North Korea - 4.37% of population

1. sold into Russia, China and the US

b. Uzbekistan

c. Cambodia

d. India - debt bondage

e. Qatar

1. Signs that someone is enslaved

a. can not leave their job

b. low wages

c. not properly cared for

d. never speaks for self

1. signs of children enslaved

a. no education

b. poor nutrition

c. shabby clothing

d. no play time

e. childrens clothing or bedding in a factory or business where they don't belong

1. Haiti - one of poorest countries in the world

a. system of slavery called Restavek

1. Restavek Freedom seeks to end slavery in Haiti

Restavek Freedom - The History of Slavery

Restavek Freedom says, "Evidence suggests that the main reason for this dramatic increase was a sharp decline in the availability of indentured servants."

https://restavekfreedom.org/2018/09/11/the-history-of-slavery/

Britannica - Code of Hammurabi

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi

>>9831943

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Implications derived from Haiti and Restavek Freedom - The History of Slavery continued.

Britannica - Code of Hammurabi

https://www.britannica.com/topic/Code-of-Hammurabi

Anon wonders if the Americas provided so many opportunities that the elites lost control of their ability to leverage poverty in order to maintain a source of indentured servants. Columbus sailed to the Americas in 1492. It wasn't until 1619 that 20 African slaves were brought to the Americas. Prior to 1619 it was indentured servants who did manuel labor. (Anon thinks that indentured servants were also enslaved.)

Were the Americas so rich in opportunities that people were able to free themselves from servitude? With the shortage of indentured servants, elites had to find another source of manual laborers. Surely, they couldn't be expected to do manual labor themselves.

Think about it. People left the old world to come to the new world for many reasons:

1. Religious freedom

2. To escape indentured servitude

3. To escape a corrupt justice system

4. To seek new opportunities in the New World

5. The desire to follow their dreams

6. Some came as indentured servants and some came as slaves (Anon fails to understand the distinction between these 2 conditions) but the author of this History of Slavery made a distinction.

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The elites controlled the Old World. Opportunity was only for certain people. Elites surely thought they could maintain control of the masses as they fled to the New World. After all, whose ships brought those masses to the Americas? To whom did those masses sell their goods once they got settled in the New World? It seems to this Anon as if we've all (no matter our skin color or our religion) been struggling against the elites for almost as long as we and our ancesters have been on the planet.

The major point being that no specific country or religion is more responsible for slavery than any other country or religion. The common "slavery thread" that runs across borders and through time is the power players behind the scenes (the elites). Do the same families who have always profited from slavery still profit from it today?

>>9831943

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Learn more about Restavek Freedom at the Sauces below. Sauces include the Restavek Freedom team, partners, Board and staff.

Restavek Freedom - About - Our Team

https://restavekfreedom.org/about/#team

Restavek Freedom - About - Partners

https://restavekfreedom.org/about/#partners

Restavek Freedom - About - Board

https://restavekfreedom.org/about/board/

Restavek Freedom - Our Staff

https://restavekfreedom.org/about/staff/

>>9832079

Plenty of facts on the website. The implications are Anons understanding of those facts. The website didn't discuss the implications but Anon did and identified, when the ideas were Anon's. Therefore Anon saw implications related to current topics of research. Anon said so.

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