In this week of the Atlas Intellectuals course on Slavery we feature Stephen Hicks’s analysis of slavery’s history: Anti-Slavery in the Americas: A Primer. The first two points:
- Before Columbus’s Atlantic crossing, slavery had long been practiced by every major culture in the world, with the likely exception of Australia. Virtually no individuals known to history challenged its morality, and no movements existed to oppose it.
- West and east African kingdoms practiced slavery extensively, both for internal purposes and for external sale to Arabs, who for centuries had transported African slaves to Asia and Europe. East and south Asians had also practiced slavery extensively for millennia. Native Americans also had slaves and other forms of forced labor. Within Europe, slavery existed but had mostly been abolished, though forms of serfdom and indentured servitude remained.
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The full course on Slavery: https://www.atlassociety.org/course/slavery.
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