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{{Important}}[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.

[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]{{Quote|Slavery was pure and unadulterated evil. There is no other side to the story.|[[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]]}}'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.

For much of human history, slavery has constituted an important dimension of social and occupational organization. The word slavery originated with the sale of Slavs to the Black Sea region during the ninth century. Slavery existed in European society until the nineteenth century, and it was the principal source of labor during the process of European colonization.

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These Iberian powers introduced about 125,000 slaves to the Americas, with some 75,000 (or 27 percent of African slave exports of the period) to the Spanish colonies, and about 50,000 (18 percent of the trade) to Brazil. This was a relatively small flow of about 1,000 slaves per year, most of whom were supplied from Portuguese forts along the West African coast. But slavery in the towns, farms, and mines of the Americas then employed less African slaves (about 45 percent of the total Atlantic trade) than in the tropical African islands of Fernando Po and Sâo Tomé, Europe proper, or the islands of the Madeiras, Cape Verdes, and the Azores (about 55 percent of trade). Indeed, the small island of Sâo Tomé alone received more than 76,000 African slaves during the period, exceeding the entire American market.

Between 1930 and 1960, the Soviet Union created a system of [[Concentration camp|slave labor camps]] called which were known as Gulags.

Prisoners in these camps were worked to death by a combination of extreme production quotas, physical and psychological brutality, hunger, lack of medical care, and the harsh environment. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years of Gulag incarceration, provided first hand testimony about the camps with the publication of ''The Gulag Archipelago'', for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fatality rate was as high as 80% during the first months in many camps. Hundreds of thousands of people, possibly millions, died as a direct result of forced labour under the Soviets.

During [[World War II]], Nazi Germany effectively enslaved about 12 million people as part of [[the Holocaust]], both those considered undesirable and citizens of conquered countries, with the avowed intention of treating these ''Untermenschen'' (sub-humans) as a permanent slave-class of inferior beings who could be worked until they died, and who possessed neither the rights nor the legal status of members of the Aryan race.

Besides Jews, the harshest deportation and forced labour policies were applied to the populations of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. By the end of the war, half of Belarus' population had been killed or deported.

Even though slavery is now outlawed in every country, the number of slaves today is estimated as between 12 million and 29.8 million. According to a broad definition of slavery, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world. In 2005, the International Labour Organization provided an estimate of 12.3 million forced labourers.

According to a 2003 report by Human Rights Watch, an estimated 15 million children in debt bondage in India work in slavery-like conditions to pay off their family's debts.

Slavoj Žižek asserts that new forms of contemporary slavery have been created in the post-[[Cold War]] era of global capitalism, including migrant workers deprived of basic civil rights on the Arabian Peninsula, the total control of workers in Asian sweatshops and the use of forced labor in the exploitation of natural resources in Central Africa.

[[Human Trafficking|Human trafficking]] is considered to be the most prominent form of modern slavery.

== People who engaged in slavery ==

* [[Christopher Columbus]]

* [[Amerigo Vespucci]]

*[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]

*[[Rameses the Great]]

*[[Jefferson Davis]]

*[[Adolf Hitler]]

*[[Andrew Jackson]]

*[[Andrew Johnson]]

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[[Category:Supremacists]]

[[Category:Mass Murderers]]

[[Category:War Criminal]]

[[Category:Kidnapper]]

[[Category:Smuggler]]

[[Category:Rapists]]

[[Category:Mutilators]]

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-{{Important}}[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.
+{{Important}}
+[[File:Cicatrices_de_flagellation_sur_un_esclave.jpg|thumb|300px|Whip wounds on a slave's back.]]{{Quote|Slavery was pure and unadulterated evil. There is no other side to the story.|[[wikipedia:Dan Rather|Dan Rather]]}}'''Slavery''' is the unconditional servitude of one individual to another. A slave is usually acquired by purchase and legally described as chattel or a tangible form of movable property.
 For much of human history, slavery has constituted an important dimension of social and occupational organization. The word slavery originated with the sale of Slavs to the Black Sea region during the ninth century. Slavery existed in European society until the nineteenth century, and it was the principal source of labor during the process of European colonization.
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 These Iberian powers introduced about 125,000 slaves to the Americas, with some 75,000 (or 27 percent of African slave exports of the period) to the Spanish colonies, and about 50,000 (18 percent of the trade) to Brazil. This was a relatively small flow of about 1,000 slaves per year, most of whom were supplied from Portuguese forts along the West African coast. But slavery in the towns, farms, and mines of the Americas then employed less African slaves (about 45 percent of the total Atlantic trade) than in the tropical African islands of Fernando Po and Sâo Tomé, Europe proper, or the islands of the Madeiras, Cape Verdes, and the Azores (about 55 percent of trade). Indeed, the small island of Sâo Tomé alone received more than 76,000 African slaves during the period, exceeding the entire American market.
+Between 1930 and 1960, the Soviet Union created a system of [[Concentration camp|slave labor camps]] called which were known as Gulags.
+Prisoners in these camps were worked to death by a combination of extreme production quotas, physical and psychological brutality, hunger, lack of medical care, and the harsh environment. Aleksandr Solzhenitsyn, who survived eight years of Gulag incarceration, provided first hand testimony about the camps with the publication of ''The Gulag Archipelago'', for which he was awarded the Nobel Prize in Literature. Fatality rate was as high as 80% during the first months in many camps. Hundreds of thousands of people, possibly millions, died as a direct result of forced labour under the Soviets.
+During [[World War II]], Nazi Germany effectively enslaved about 12 million people as part of [[the Holocaust]], both those considered undesirable and citizens of conquered countries, with the avowed intention of treating these ''Untermenschen'' (sub-humans) as a permanent slave-class of inferior beings who could be worked until they died, and who possessed neither the rights nor the legal status of members of the Aryan race.
+Besides Jews, the harshest deportation and forced labour policies were applied to the populations of Belarus, Ukraine, and Russia. By the end of the war, half of Belarus' population had been killed or deported.
+Even though slavery is now outlawed in every country, the number of slaves today is estimated as between 12 million and 29.8 million. According to a broad definition of slavery, there were 27 million people in slavery in 1999, spread all over the world. In 2005, the International Labour Organization provided an estimate of 12.3 million forced labourers.
+According to a 2003 report by Human Rights Watch, an estimated 15 million children in debt bondage in India work in slavery-like conditions to pay off their family's debts.
+Slavoj Žižek asserts that new forms of contemporary slavery have been created in the post-[[Cold War]] era of global capitalism, including migrant workers deprived of basic civil rights on the Arabian Peninsula, the total control of workers in Asian sweatshops and the use of forced labor in the exploitation of natural resources in Central Africa.
+[[Human Trafficking|Human trafficking]] is considered to be the most prominent form of modern slavery.
+== People who engaged in slavery ==
+* [[Christopher Columbus]]
+* [[Amerigo Vespucci]]
+*[[Nathan Bedford Forrest]]
+*[[Rameses the Great]]
+*[[Jefferson Davis]]
+*[[Adolf Hitler]]
+*[[Andrew Jackson]]
+*[[Andrew Johnson]]
 [[Category:Villainous Event]]
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 [[Category:Psychological Abusers]]
 [[Category:Supremacists]]
+[[Category:Mass Murderers]]
+[[Category:War Criminal]]
+[[Category:Kidnapper]]
+[[Category:Smuggler]]
+[[Category:Rapists]]
+[[Category:Mutilators]]