Miscellaneous - Exam 1 Flashcards
What are Orlando Pattersons 3 main marks/characteristics of slavery?
- Dishonour (Only relationship is with master)
- Natal alienation (Status of family isn’t known)
- Social death (a substitute for death)
What are the two forms of social death?
Intrusive slavery - Slave considered an outsider by society (used as justification since outsiders since as bad)
Extrusive slavery - Slave understood as fallen insiders instead of foreigners
(incipient slavery can also be known to be social death)
What are the two forms of natal alienation?
Perpetual/”Full” slavery - Slave cant claim both parents and child
Incipient slavery - Slave couldn’t claim ancestry but could only claim their children
How did people become enslaved in the ancient world?
Debt slaves (became slave thru debt) Kidnap (pirates would kidnap people, sell them to become slaves) Prisoner of War Volunteer Death/Punishment (penal slavery) Exiled from country or abandoned Birth
Explain how one could become a slave from being an exile?
For example, when a child is born and is deemed or predicted to be weak or not powerful he could be abandoned or even become an exile to another country. They would then become slaves.
How could one become a slave simply due to birth?
If one of your parents are slaves, you follow the status of your father. If both parents are free, then the child is free
How could one become a slave thru death/punishment or otherwise known as penal slavery?
Slave status is obtained thru the justice system (very common in Ancient China)
What is a slaveholding society (ancient China) and what is a slave society (Korea)?
Slaveholding society - A society in which slaves were not essential to societys function, just used for productivity.
Slave society - Society where slaves are essential to everything (economic, military, etc.)
How was slavery articulated?
Physical instruments (whips) Symbolic (dishonor, social death, etc)
