Slaves in the US

This is perhaps a strange question but I will still ask it.

Was slavery legally confined to blacks? Considering the flourishing slavemarkets in North Africa and the Ottoman empire was there anything in the law that prevented the imports of non-black slaves from this area?

There was a news recently about an American couple running perfume industry to possesses a Indonesian female. Poor lady... 

Or maybe black as in people who have ancestors from Sub-Africa...

Originally posted by Cywr IIRC, a sort of mild non-lifetime slavery called indentured servitude was practiced with people from just about any bacground.

Yes, I remember reading that it was used by the British government to get rid of Scottish Covenanter and Jacobite prisoners during the 17th and 18th centuries.

In respect to the original question above: As far as I know, actual slavery was resticted to non-white people. Natives of North and South America were also occasionally made into slaves, but apparently were not suitable for the hard work. According to records, they tended to die to quickly. So the decision to bring in black people from Africa was a horribly practical one.

Originally posted by Aelfgifu In respect to the original question above: As far as I know, actual slavery was resticted to non-white people. Natives of North and South America were also occasionally made into slaves, but apparently were not suitable for the hard work. According to records, they tended to die to quickly. So the decision to bring in black people from Africa was a horribly practical one.

Australians were still a bit too ashamed to research their criminal ancestors past. Only now it is becoming a bit more popular

Well not all Australians are decendents of crims. Besides stealing a loaf a bread is hardly gangster, so looking back into your past isnt going to bring much pride.

If anyone thought my words were an accusation or a moral judgement, I am sorry, that was not the intent. It was meant neutrally. Of course there are a lot of people in Australia who are not decended fron the first wave of exiles, and of course a lot of these exiles were hardly criminal within our defenition of the word.

Edited by Aelfgifu - 13-Jul-2007 at 07:40

In Quebec they used black and native slaves alike the latter being brought by rival tribes.

Slavery as an 'international' form of trade and commerce was outlawed on 2 March 1807; effective 1 Jan 08.

Based on Virginia statutes many states continued the inclusion of children viz a matriarchal association; as slaves.


'National' trade and or exchange coupled with the institution as a whole, was not prohibited until the passage of the 13th Amendment-1865.

Miscegenation laws prohibiting relations between races were initiated approx. 1630. These laws and others adopted; even included provisions that criminalized thru fines and or corporal punishments, the unions and or sexual associations-relations between races.

Although not a concern as significant by the mid 1840s' Indentured servitude in the US did not officially end in many places until as late as 1898 (Hawaii).

Miscegenation laws and past case precedents criminalizing the participants remained in place; well into the mid 20th ce.


''The Civil Rights Act of 1866 made blacks full U.S. citizens (and this repealed the Dred Scott decision). In 1868, the 14th amendment granted full U.S. citizenship to African-Americans. The 15th amendment, ratified in 1870, extended the right to vote to black males.''


https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/African-American_history


Native Americans: The 14th Amendment was not inclusive for Natives; as a result of the Natives identification as sovereign nations. Consequently The 'Indian Citizenship Act' of 1924 corrected this...in part as there still remained disqualifiers. Coupled with the 'Nationality Act' of 1940 and revisons of varying state statutes. Natives were thus finally recognized as full citizens with the right to vote by 1948.



Edited by Centrix Vigilis - 10-Jul-2015 at 02:06