Islam, Archaeology And Slavery In Africa

Islam, Archaeology and Slavery in Africa On this article about slavery in Africa, we going to find out what is slavery mean? How Islamic slave people in Africa? How slave were trade from North Africa to West Africa? What kind of slave were using at that time? However, according to J. Alexander “the slavery is a term used so loosely in European languages and Christian societies” (Alexander. J, 2001, p. 44 45). This means that slavery is a word which was using before the Islamic started slave people in Africa, it provided from Roman Empire who started slave people when they were invading another empire. One kind of slave in Africa were the chattel slavery who were considered the common slaves at that time, that kind of slaves could be trade for money, killed, adopted, and sell by his owners. In the other hand, slaves could be forced to do a lot of hard work without rest; also slaves’ children were forced to have …show more content…
First job, domestic service which “the female had to cook, water-carrying and men had to attendants and guards the prestige of the householder” (Alexander. J, 2001, p. 47-49). Second job, agriculture was a job for only young strong men (Chattel slaves) and they had to work in cultivation and in animal husbandry. Third job, for slaves was mineral extraction when the slaves have mining at the cave looking for gold and salt extraction. Fourth job, soldier and sailor were another occupation for a few slaves and their worked to protect the householder. Fifth job, industry and commerce as Alexander said “chattel slaves were trained and used in artisan workshops, males in metalworking, woodworking and potteries” (Alexander. J, 2001, p 49). which means that men worked agents and assistants in commerce and females in textile ones. The last one was administration which men “slaves were used after training in many states as officials” (Alexander. J, 2001, p.