What are some ways in which slavery in African and Muslim societies was different from slavery in the Americas?

1 Answer
Nov 9, 2016

Africans and Muslims thought of slaves as people that had fallen on bad circumstances. In the Americas they were thought of as inferior beings.

Explanation:

The more traditional view of Slaves was that of people, through, circumstances that held an lower social position and rights.

The Ashanti often talked about the benefits of marrying a slave over a free women as the husband's family held claim to the children and not the wife's family.

Muslim Law provides some rights to Muslim slaves and encourages donations to the freeing of slaves. The Sharia viewed them as human beings.

There were some racial and religious aspects to African and Muslim slavery. Slaves were war captives or children of Slaves. Often the Muslim world relied on paid labor rather than slave labor.

The Atlantic slave trade seem to develop the idea of Black Slaves
as inferior beings and not quite human.