Slavery Definition Essay

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Slavery can be defined in different ways. Freedom is a term reflected by physical, religious and ideology independence without retribution.

The weekly readings reviewed for this assignment included Spanish and English documents. Some of the readings Illustrated different forms of slavery and how it occurred in history. In the readings that were Spanish in origin it seemed that their religion or the word religion seemed to come up a lot. It also seems that Europeans believed that people who were educated, and where willing to change to what the Europeans believed in the Europeans would not force it. But if people were not willing to make some changes the Europeans saw it as a reason to make them not free or slaves/ not allow them to have all freedoms that a free person had.

The Spanish document “The Requirement” which was a narrative, written in the year 1513, documented the enslavement of Native Americans. This document was used to inform Native Americans that the Spanish were now their master under the leadership of King Don Fernando, the King of Spain, and his daughter, the Queen of Castile and Leon. The document was used to inform the Native Americans of their choices by reading to them in Spanish, not their native language. They were told that they would answer to the King of Spain, they would give up their …show more content…

Slavery is not always recognizable by who enslave other people. We can define historically as the loss of freedom by the forced conformity by physical, relish emotional, control or loss of power. We can also identify the reason of enslavement, which include perception people not like us and beliefs not shared. The potential for slavery continues for the same reasons found in

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