A Brief History Of The Origins Of Slavery: Chapter 1
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- Опубліковано 20 тра 2024
- When Did Slavery Start? The Origins of Slavery.
The history of slavery is as long as the history of humanity and spans almost every single culture and ethnicity. As long as humans have had civilisation, we’ve had ways to subjugate each other.
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Long before the ancient Greeks, Romans, Persians and other civilisations, were even older ones, with few surviving records. Like the Mesopotamians.
This civilization gives us our first known records of slavery in law, although even these glimpses of over 4000 years into the past suggest that slavery is much older than the written proof we have today. Fragments of other texts have mentioned slaves in these civilizations, and earlier ones, but the legal records we’ll be looking at in this video are the ones from where we can distinguish the most information.
So, what are the first recorded instances of slavery? Let’s take a look and don’t forget to check out part 2 for a brief timeline of slavery all the way from these ancient records to modern day.
The First Evidence of Slavery: Pre-Written Records
In early civilisations, there are legal codes that include some of the first written, recorded instances of slavery, all of which are from different, but similar periods in Ancient Mesopotamia. The main five we’ll be looking at are The Code of Ur-Nammu, The Code of Eshnunna, The Code of Lipit-Ishtar, The Code of Hammurabi and The Code of Nesilim.
Each was inscribed on ancient tablets, or pieces of stele and contain multiple mentions and legal proceedings to do with slaves, suggesting it was a key part of the ancient civilisation’s workings and existed long before the records we have since uncovered suggest.
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00:00 Start
01:14 The First Evidence of Slavery: Pre-Written Records
01:57 Number One: The Code of Ur-Nammu
04:12 Number Two and Three: The Code of Eshnunna and The Code of Lipit-Ishtar
06:03 Number Four: The Code of Hammurabi
07:52 Number Five: The Code of Nesilim
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The reason slavery has died out in the last 250 years is less because we discovered it was bad and more due to the industrial age and the proliferation of labor saving devices. Prior to this time almost all work was accomplished through human labor.
what makes you think that slavery has died out-----you are funny
@@user-mi7zx2ki5o Right. It's still very much going on. Just because it's not on the new doesn't mean it isn't still happening. Modern slavery is just more in the shadows today.
@@user-mi7zx2ki5o I didn't say it was eradicated. In the last 250 years legal slavery has probably dropped 99% around the world.
@@TheBruces56 YOU NEED TO SPEND SOME TIME IN AFRICA AND THE MIDDLE EAST AND INDEED INDIA BANGLADESH AND PAKISTAN IN FACT ALL THE STANS
@@user-mi7zx2ki5o While I would like to visit I don't think I need to in order to know various forms of slavery still exist in those places. However, I did specify "Legal" slavery. Do you know if it is legal in those places? If so they can not be members of the UN. Before this point gets beaten to death I was originally just saying that technology has made slavery in general unnecessary.
Slavery is known to have existed as early as the Shang dynasty (18th-12th century bce) in China. It has been studied thoroughly in ancient Han China (206 bce-25 ce), where perhaps 5 percent of the population was enslaved. Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th century.
*21st Century - forced labor camps of political dissidents and ethnic and religious minorities is still very much a thing today in China.
21st century, gotcha covered bro! Looking out for your mistakes my man!
Still is in Xinjiang.
Slavery has existed since our species settled down to agriculture. From then on it was the haves and the havenots. Someone owns it all and someone else works it all. Since the beginning of the agricultural revolution
Uyghur Muslims are currently enslaved in China.
South African accent come throughhh. Great video 🙏🏻
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RED PILL : You are a slave, Neo. Like everyone else, you were born into bondage... born into a prison that you cannot smell or taste or touch. A prison for your mind. - Matrix 1 Morpheus
How do we escape
@@tylerlapointe3964 Our best hope is that a agent comes with mad Kung-Fu skills and we have to have even madder Kung-Fu skills, all i know is that winning a Kung-Fu fight is very important
Of course I've known about slavery all my life, but for some reason the part about handing over the firstborn son if you marry a free person caught me off guard. I didn't know you could use a baby as a transaction like that. Yikes.
Can u do a video about polish Lithuanian Commonwealth
Thank you for showing us the light.
Glad you mentioned that not all people had slaves cause just off the top of my head I can think of a dozen or more people for whom slavery wasn’t feasible and a few where it was a huge sin that your ancestors would turn their backs on you for owning a person .
You'd better say even BEFORE there was a civilization there was slavery.
The difference is that slavery was completely accepted at that time aka "the winner takes all".
The ancient Egyptian chronicles tell about Egyptian pharao's who rewarded soldiers with slaves, land and other items.
The idea that it is NOT acceptable to enslave other people is a rather modern concept.
To bad this is so little understood
There was no slavery as an institution in Kemet, but Assyrian controlled Kemet is likely.
Thanks!
Thank you.
Ever since there were the concept of (intramural) punishment for violation of order maintaining rules and that of (extramural) war with explicit intent of violation, there was slavery.
The way African Americans talk about slavery you'd think it was created in America
Now we have financial slavery
Are you trying to suggest that you are a slave today in the same way a black man was a slave in the antebellum south?
@johnnyyash You ain't lying. 😭
@guesswhoasks you should pay attention to history more... all races have been subjugated to slavory, dating all the way back way before written record. Egyptian pharohs, African Moores, Indians and native Americans all had slaves. The light skinned people are just the latest ones because they followed what they saw in previous territories. It's horrible all the way around, people suck and are downright evil at the core but there are still a lot of good people and that's good be everywhere you go, good and bad. What we need to focus on is the actual slavory still going on in the world today and being their voice.
So Britney spears, was "Geme more, Geme Geme More" , "I'm a slave for yo"
I think "an eye for an eye" should be written in the constitution
If it’s not then it is in human nature and civilisation. We just might call it justice or defence of Freedom
Can you make this video into Spanish? I teach a Dual Language class and this would be great in Spanish
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PragU channel some of you have really got to watch of a video titled "Short History of Slavery". It definitely covers it all. And not one country or another are guiltless.
Easier to blame a........NO REPERATIONS?
Does India still have slavery?
The Global Slavery Index estimates that on any given day in 2016 there were nearly 8 million people living in modern slavery in India. In terms of prevalence of modern slavery in India, there were 6.1 victims for every thousand people.
Yes India still has slavery. It's called the caste system
Mind sharing a link to that Index?
@@explorer6990 just google it , just like I did ....
Like it or not we’re all slaves.
Would you define the term, as I might agree, according to how you define the term "slave"?
Very good material! Just throwing my two cents in now. One could argue that with the slavery of the 16th up to the early 19th century we (that's indeed "us" Europeans and American settlers) "perfected" slavery where the numbers and the output of labor was concerned. One could even say that we made slavery a full blown commercial commodity. And with that came the much darker, inhumane cruel aspect of it. Which also became much stronger. And... with that... came awareness! Because it was also "us" Europeans, American settlers who came to the conclusion that this could not go on! No, I am not claiming that "we" invented the anti-slavery movement. We just learned! And eventually we abolished slavery. But this also begs the question why there is still up to this day human trafficing, which is also slavery. And kid-soldiers who are also slaves. Still up to this day and our modern awareness and laws slavery is still a global problem.
Slavery still exists, it's now called citizenship. Check out the truth about the birth certificate and maritime law.
like your comment - think the Romans perfected slavery , followed by the Ottoman empire - European 16th C slave trade was late to the game
Yes, we were involved with slavery; but not to the extent that Muslims, or the Ottomans operated at
It certainly wasn't the Europeans who perfected latter-day slavery and their treatment of the slaves was far less barbaric. Try reading Dr Livingstones' diaries of his encounters with slave trains' in Africa in the 1880s for a true horror story description.
Actually the Ottoman Turks and the Africans perfected the enterprise of slavery. In fact the Arabs and the Africans continue the practice on a scale most have no idea of the magnitude. I would say it was the Europeans and Americans that made the first attempt to eradicate the practice.
The bible allowed slavery because the people at the time did not consider it to be immoral.
The same way goes to The Quran
@@Zlkcll Exactly....So what reason would anyone use either as a guideline for their morality when they allow immorality?
@@GuessWhoAsks By what standards are they immoral, for allowing practices of their own times?
@@geeljire9247 Are you claiming that you think slavery is moral? ....or.....Are you claiming slavery was moral at one point in our history? If you are claiming slavery was at one point in our history but not now, when do you think slavery became immoral and why?
@@geeljire9247 Do you think considering another person to be property which can be passed on to your children as an inheritance is "MORAL" or immoral?
Already well established in the world brought to the Western hemisphere by the predominant military civilizations of the time
Interesting but you should've avoided using much more recent and unrelated pictures of american slavery when talking about this, and shown where these early civilizations were located.
Cool, another Kurtzgesagt
8:53 well duh its like if u damage someone's car u have to pay for the damage because the car (slave)might not work as well anymore.. they're not doing it because they feel bad for the slave...
To be fair, the text could be interpreted worse...Once you damage your slave and affect the slaves ability to properly function then you no longer are responsible for caring/feeding/sheltering the damaged slave...but the damaged slave is now not your problem any longer and are sent out...
@@GuessWhoAsks right!
Bible was so concerned about what we did while naked yet couldn’t bother to outlaw slavery. A HOLY book??
is "slavery"..today..translated to the wars of Ukraine/Russia and Hamas/israel..? does that then tell something about our present counter to the past of slavery?
you fail to point out the prevalence of slavery in africa before europeans and of course the white slaves who were taken from ireland and mainland britain by the moors. a very incomplete study very disappointing
Hence, BRIEF
The word slave has origins with the word "slav" or Slavic. As far as the English language goes "slaves" started in Russia.
Imma name my kids Ur-Nammu.
You should have matched your photos/graphics to the time period narrated. Disturbing.
We are still in slavery
Yes I thoroughly enjoyed this video. I find that this is factual, but only to a point in human history. Let me explain please.
I think the history of slavery goes far further back. It started with a person I'll call Zzz, because I have no idea what this person's name might have been. Zzz because my imagination describes this person as habitually lazy person, desirous of using others time and energy to do their own. Zzz as the human race started to congregate in groups for security sake came upon the realization that the natural forces of nature that were, and mostly still remain uncontrollable by humans, could be used to control the group Zzz was amongst for the purposes of power over, and control of the others. And so Zzz invent gods representing these fearsome elements that only this Zzz person could communicate with in behalf of the group that would cower into their caves whenever a wrathful element or fierce animal descended upon them. Once this was accepted by the group in majority they then enslaved themselves. Hence the beginnings of slavery to another and the institutions that followed was the acceptance of those earliest humans.. Perhaps it was the conquering of fire that changed some minds, but religion and governance were established as a power, and with the greed within them slavery in all forms became subconsciously acceptable. Codes and laws were established, and this video begins.
Today we see it here in the USA and elsewhere in the form of dictatorships which are more often than not prescribed under oligarchy control who rules by means of wage slavery, and the fear for individual and familiar survival. Of course the push towards conspicuous consumption plays a big part by putting wages earned back into the pockets of the oligarchy. The contrived continuence of religions power within governments, enforcing the human psychological fear conditioning of power brokers. Religions base element of fear mongering is a relavant power tool used by the power brokers as well. It's all based on the utilization of coercion through innate human fears for security. That little reptilian piece of our brains (flight, fight, freeze), that when we don't apply logic to situation, we submit to causation rather than look to solution and action that enslaves the human race/society.
An industrial fascist and Nazi sympathizer once said that it is good that the public has little understanding of the banking system, ie monetary system, because if they were to, there would be revolution by morning. For those readers who don't understand what I'm saying; an oligarchy controlled government is rule through and by wealth consolidation.
Man my mind is on a run, and this comment is already lengthy. So I'll end with the wishing if Peace and Tranquility for All
Most of that that poses ill upon humanity is created by some human(s), and the acceptance of others. Are we so feeble, or apathetic that we prefer self-accepted slavery to a marginal few rather than exert the the brain to its fullest to be unshackled from the corruption of but a few who's financial quest are ethically out of context to a free society.
I don't think you are wrong at all, have you ever read a book called Atlas shrugged?
We also must consider that slavery can possibly go back to at least to the last ice age. When the conquistadors arrived in America they found slavery, in fact some shipwrecked survivors became slaves of the native Americans. This suggest one of two possibilities. First, slavery independently developed in America the same time as Europe, Asia, and Africa. Second, slavery already existed when the first Americans arrived during the pleistocene. Interesting and fun to think about.
nietsche >>>>>fyodor.........
The Codes of Nesilim is from the Hittites. Hittites are Indo-europeans, who are culturally much more humane than Semites, like the Assyrians or today the Jews and Arabs.
Marking out the eyes of a painted woman 😂 good thing u didnt give it away
The best slaves are ones that don't know they are slaves.
The first ever slaves were humans to the Sumerian gods BEFORE THE GLOBAL FLOOD. Psalm 82, Jude 1:6, Genesis 6:1-4
After the flood, Nimrod used forced labor to dig the ruins of the flood out of the mud and rebuild, as well as bullworks for Babylon.
This Nimrod began slavery in Egypt later conquered by Nubians, conquered by Greeks, conquered by Romans. All had slaves!!!
Just because the bible allowed its followers to own slaves does not make it moral. It just means the bible allowed something we now know to be immoral.
@@GuessWhoAsks , the Bible didn't allow slaves, the Bible recorded the fact of slaves. Humans started slavery, not God. God put up with it as part of our twisted system. God was the one who commanded moral treatment of slaves.
The gods I want talking about who enslaved humans were the fallen angels from Psalm 82. The true God promises to punish them.
@@GuessWhoAsksthe bible didn't "allow" anything. It simply documented it
@@moyramelody8503"the bible didn't "allow" anything. It simply documented it"...Are you suggesting that the Bible simply documented stealing, or does the bible forbid it? Does the Bible forbid, allow, or only "document" lust? To clarify...I am asking if Moyra Melody uses the Bible as a guideline for their morality, or are the ten commandments meaningless and inconsequential? IF Moyra mistakenly relies on the Bible for their morality, then explain where in the Bible you learned that slavery was not allowed, but only "documented"?...Do you even understand what your Bible, or are you a fake Christain?
No. I'm suggesting that the Bible didn't allow anything in regards of what the original comment said about slavery.
And what has really changed to the last 4000 years? Slavery still exists, ask anybody who works at a fast food outlet or other minimum wage job.
Do you know that the Chinese history have no records of slavery in their history ?
It proves that they are very cultured.
Really ? I just googled slavery in china >>>> Slavery is known to have existed as early as the Shang dynasty (18th-12th century bce) in China. It has been studied thoroughly in ancient Han China (206 bce-25 ce), where perhaps 5 percent of the population was enslaved. Slavery continued to be a feature of Chinese society down to the 20th century.
@@dystopian-oo4ud
No slavery in China.
Don’t twist the facts.
@@windsong3wong828 you know what Google is
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Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Slavery was abolished as a legally recognized institution, including in a 1909 law[1][2] fully enacted in 1910,[3] although the practice continued until at least 1949.[4] Illegal acts of forced labor and sexual slavery in China continue to occur in the twenty-first century,[5] but those found guilty of such crimes are punished harshly. The Chinese term for slave (nuli) can also be roughly translated into 'debtor', 'dependent', or 'subject'. Slaves in China were a very small part of the population and could include war prisoners, kidnap victims or people who had been sold.[6]
@@dystopian-oo4ud
Yup, no slavery in China.
I’d like to have some slaves.
Slavery is still legal in the US. The thirteenth amendment banned the private ownership of slaves. It made it a Government monopoly. THe Government is allowed to keep slaves and use forced labour.
Basic historical slavery, and biblical slavery is much different and more human than chattel slavery. Pre-euro slavery didn't dehumanize the slave. European slavery eliminated humanity. As for reparations expecting the offender to do an accurate account of what is owed is not wise. There is an accurate accounting done by an incorruptible source with the power to collect... are you aligned with that source???
From whom did the European slave traders buy the slaves from? Would that be from African kingdoms who traded in slaves? Do you think the practice of castrating male slaves bye the ottoman empire was a A better treatment? Any thoughts on the millions of Europeans taken as slaves by the North African slave traders? How many use the term Europeans I guess you don’t mean the Lithuanian is the Estonian is the Germans the Swiss the Milanese ?
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Slavery exists in islam from it's inception Mid 7th century til now
Black males were castrated
The black female were concubines ( sex slave)
Oh no Islam has a better system of slavery
"biblical slavery is much different and more human than chattel slavery"....please provide your definition of "chattel" and explain how Leviticus 25 39-46 does not describe foreigners held as chattel slaves.
Because it's in the book don't make it right they and their God were all oppressive and monstereous