What contributed to the rise of Slavery?

Any ideas?

Any type of slavery.

Like we see that every ancient civ had slaves...i was wondering why

Edited by demon

I think Styrbiorn pretty much answered that question.  LOL

with Styrbiorn here

Originally posted by fastspawn What slavery? Slavery of conquered Peoples? Slavery of Africans? Wage Slavery? Slavery of native Americans?

  Hi Fastspawn:

  In theory, the native americans under the jurisdiction of the King of Spain weren�t slaves. The reality was another. Only the africans imported into America were considered slaves.

  The native americans were managed by Encomiendas.

  The Encomendero received from the King of Spain the power over a certain number of individuals and land. The Encomendero had the obligation to " christianize " to the natives under his protectorade. In exchange, they were obligated to owrk for his Lord ( protected also of the Inquisition ). Natives could not be judged by the Inquisition, due the Vatican consider them as naive as childs.

   Regards

 

Slavery on the Aztec Empire.

Slaves (distinct from war captives) also constituted an important class. This slavery was very different from what Europeans of the same period were to establish in their colonies, although it had more in common with the slaves of classical antiquity. (Sahagun doubts the appropriateness even of the term "slavery" for this Aztec institution.) First, slavery was personal, not hereditary: a slave's children were free. A slave could have possessions and even own other slaves. A slave could buy his/her liberty. Any slave could be set free if he or she could show he/she was mistreated, or if he/she had children or married with his/her master.

Typically, upon the death of the master, slaves who had performed outstanding services were freed. The rest of the slaves were passed on as part of an inheritance.

Another rather remarkable method for a slave to recover liberty was described by Manuel Orozco y Berra in La civilizacion Azteca (1860): if, at the Tianquiztli (marketplace), a slave could escape the vigilance of his or her master, run outside the walls of the market and step on a piece of human excrement, he could then present his case to the judges, who would free him. He or she would then be washed, provided with new clothes (so that he or she would not be wearing clothes belonging to the master), and declared free. Because, in stark contrast to the European colonies, a person could be declared a slave if he or she attempted to prevent the escape of a slave (unless that person were a relative of the master), others would not typically help the master in preventing the slave's escape.

Orozco y Berra also reports that a master could not sell a slave without the slave's consent, unless the slave had been clasified as incorrigible by an authority. (Incorrigibility could be determined on the basis of repeated laziness, attempts to run away, or general bad conduct.) Incorrigible slaves were made to wear a wooden collar, affixed by rings at the back. The collar was not merely a symbol of bad conduct: it was designed to made it harder to run away through a crowd or through narrow spaces.

When buying a collared slave, one was informed of how many times that slave had been sold. A slave who was sold four times as incorrigible could be sold to be sacrificed; those slaves commanded a premium in price.

However, if a collared slave could manage to present him- or herself in the roayl palace or in a temple, he or she would regain liberty.

An Aztec could became slave as a punishment. A murderer sentenced to death could instead, upon the request of the wife of his victim, be given to her as a slave. A father could sell his son into slavery if the son was declared incorrigible by an authority. Those who did not pay their debts could also be sold as slaves.

People could sell themselves as slaves. They could stay free long enough to enjoy the price of their liberty, about twenty blankets, usually enough for a year; after that time they went to their new master. Usually this was the destiny of the gamblers and of the old ahuini (courtesan/prostitute).

I don't have much to offer to this discussion, bt I'll give it a go. As I recall, slavery dates back almost to the dawn of civilization, though it has manifested itself differently in every society in which it has occurred. The ancient Sumerians differentiated between debt-slaves and chattel slaves (the former being citizens who had fallen into debt, the latter being captives taken in war). The Romans took slaves from all of the people they conquered, and their entire economy/society was so dependent upon them that a slave revolt in Sicily caused a huge food shortage in Rome until it was suppressed by... was it Lucullus? And of course we all know about Spartacus. Recently in the west, slavery was racially based, and this is the image we most often associate with slavery. Hope I have contributed something, though I'm sure you can all do better.

Urg, talk about necromancy.

Originally posted by Jalisco Lancer Originally posted by fastspawn What slavery? Slavery of conquered Peoples? Slavery of Africans? Wage Slavery? Slavery of native Americans?   Hi Fastspawn:   In theory, the native Americans under the jurisdiction of the King of Spain weren�t slaves. The reality was another. Only the africans imported into America were considered slaves.   The native americans were managed by Encomiendas.   The Encomendero received from the King of Spain the power over a certain number of individuals and land. The Encomendero had the obligation to " christianize " to the natives under his protectorade. In exchange, they were obligated to owrk for his Lord ( protected also of the Inquisition ). Natives could not be judged by the Inquisition, due the Vatican consider them as naive as childs.    Regards

Edited by Goban - 29-Apr-2008 at 14:47