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What are the 3 pillars that slavery involves?
coercion, domination/exploitation, alienation
To what extent was the American revolutionary ideology compatible with slavery?
-COMPATIBLE - strongly endorses the idea of property (its your property, you can do what you want with it)
-INCOMPATIBLE - hypocrisy of wanting liberty for themselves while enslaving others, everyone wanted state rights (colonies like virginia, pennsylvania didn't want to sign the constitution which takes property out of personal hands)
-patrick henry argues against signing the constitution in virginia because he knew slavery was important to virginias economy
Does free trade economy work with or against slavery? What is the link between slavery and capitalism?
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Define jurisdiction
- a realm under which laws rule
What are the 3 things that contributed to the rise of slavery in antiquity?
1) agriculture
2) war (in roman times)
3) abrahamic traditions/text
How did agriculture contribute to the rise of slavery?
-horses and slaves mentioned interchangeably
-domestication of animals linked to the systematization of human slavery
What did Aristotle say about the bodies of free men and slaves?
-Aristotle claimed that nature must have intended to make the bodies of free men and slaves different for the different services that they had to perform.
-(agriculture contributing to the rise of slavery)
What is the legal root of slavery and why?
-POW captivity
-war bestowed upon the victor the right of slaughter, if they choose to keep the people alive as slaves they should be grateful
-slavery as delayed death
How did war contribute to the rise of slavery?
-slavery seen as merciful in the context of war
-slavery as delayed death for POW's
-according to roman law, those taken in war are absolutely to be considered slaves
-when you have slaves, they will want to kill you, therefore you need to control them with violence
Was there a racial aspect to slavery in Roman times?
-associated red hair with slavery
-slaves taken were POW's and therefore often from foreign lands where red hair was common
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