One of the methods that were very common was buying freedom, instead of gaining it. While working for the Whites, some “lucky” slaves were able to maintain a beneficial relationship with their masters. Venture Smith, an enslaved African American shares his experience in his 1798 Narrative. Venture Smith shares how his master let him earn money for freedom. Some slaves weren’t as lucky as Venture Smith.
Punishments included whipping, mutilation, being sold away, or assaulted (female). You might wonder how a human could treat another with such cruelty, it's because they considered slaves property and not human. Other owners viewed their slaves with paternalism, or with a father-like control. Correspondingly, to keep the slaves in their places, slave codes were passed. These codes inhibited a slave to leave without a pass, stand up against a white, read or write, and or have have anti-slavery items.
Many of the ancient lands we learn about in school are situated in river valleys teeming with silt that’s just waiting for stuff to be grown in it. This doesn’t make things easy for them, exactly, but, at the very least, that part of their life is taken care of. They can get both water and food from these river valleys they call home, as well as wealth from trading their crops. This was the case for both Mesopotamia and Egypt. Ancient Greece, however, as stated in Document 1, did not have these advantages.
Only for 7 years though so they could still have a good life. Also if a slave ran away they would send people to get them then they would whip them and beat them. Slaves were sold every where like every day stores markets and lots of other places. Slavery was a big thing back in the olden days. 1.
Slaves ranked very low in the minds of the Athens “the use… of slaves hardly differs at all from that of domestic animals” (5). This shows they owned slaves but may have treated them with some sense of respect but they were still thought of as property. The use and ownership of slaves shows that social classes (if there was a set class systems) were not at all equal. The Athenians believed that there was a natural ruler and a natural subject, “for rule of free over slave, male over female, man over boy, are all natural…” (7). A slave system means that Athens lacked a true democracy and didn’t hold every society member to
The treatment was very poor. They were treated inhumanly as part of property. The slaves were no different than land or food at an auction (Doc 2). Slave auctions were places where slaves were split off from family members to the highest bidders. Many families never seen each other again after being auctioned off.
Slaveowners were able to keep every penny that they made from their slave’s labor because they did not have to pay a single penny to their slave. Also, the slaves were considered as their owner’s property, therefore the slaveowners were able to claim their slave’s offspring as slaves too. In the article “Did slavery make economic sense?” an anonymous author quotes Robert Fogel and Stanley Engerman, and they state, “[slavery is] generally a highly profitable investment which yielded rates of return that compared favourably with the most outstanding investment opportunities in
These people were not native of Athens but were free men with less rights than the upper class. They mainly held trading and manufacturing jobs. Freedmen were next on the social hierarchy list and they were considered the lower class of Greece. These people were once slaves but were freed by their owners, they could never become citizens and were given only a few rights and privileges. As expected, the last class in the Greek hierarchy was the slaves.
Ancient Greece was divided among several hundreds of city-states called poleis. Among all these poleis Athens and Sparta were the most significant,influencial, powerful and largest states. Athens was culturally,economically and socially developed whereas Sparta’s lifestyle was completely based on military system. Geographically, Sparta located in the Peloponnesus penisula of southern Greece and Athens was 100 miles far located at north-east corner of Sparta. Athens and Sparta were the rivals of each other during classical age of Greece.
From there, the slaves were sent on a harsh journey across the Atlantic Ocean, which lasted about six to nine months. They were rarely fed, got small amounts of water -- barely enough to survive on, and were never cleaned. The slaves’ journey was horrible, though their daily life didn’t get much better when they got to leave the ship. After the traders arrived in America, they unloaded their slaves from the ship, and not long afterward, were put up for sale at an auction. Thence, wealthier people would attend slave auctions and bid on a slave (or multiple slaves)
During the time of the Greeks, the world was in an extremely volatile time, where control of the people was usually determined by some kind of monarchy. This monarchy, controlled the money and the power. The general public had little or nothing to say on how things operated and how they were run, unless they managed to over-throw those in power by brute force, just like what happened in Zimbabwe recently. Because the global mindset was not yet prepared for such forward thinking, democracy was flushed out by neighboring civilizations that proved to threaten the Greek “Utopian” lifestyle, reinstating tyranny over the masses. He who holds the biggest stick and controls the money shall control the people.
The slavery in colonial America started around 1600 with indentured slaves, but after some time, people were often sold and bought unintentional. In 1619, the first African slaves arrived in Virginia and by 1820, almost four Africans for every European had crossed the Atlantic. In the late 1800‘s around 12.5 million slaves had been shipped from Africa, and 10.5 million had arrived in America. Prices of slaves varied a lot over time, and it was expensive to own a slave, but it was gainful. In order to make sure the effectiveness of slaves, most slave owners supplied only the bare minimum of food and shelter needed for the slaves to survive and then forced them to work twenty-four hours a day.
John Medina Ms. Tinker Honors English II Period 6 10 September 2014 Wiki Page: Middle Class Men in Ancient Greece Intro: As being part of the ancient Greek society, middle class men were called the “Metics”, meaning that they were the people that were not originally from Athens, but moved there from another location. They also could have been freed saves.
In ancient Greece, there was a definite line between rich and poor. With that, finding government that would work with everyone was hard. Aristocracies and oligarchies only helped one side, looked down on the poor, and since there was generally no middle class to mediate, the two sides were constantly fighting. Aristotle noticed this, and wrote about how there needs to be a middle class in his work Politics.
Unlike today’s times, they didn’t face any punishment whatsoever. Slavery is a flawed system because not only is it morally wrong, it also violates the human rights of these slaves and makes them submit by mentally scarring
