Slavery
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The End of Roman Britannia
Introduction Previously I have looked at slavery in the ancient civilisations from Old Babylonia through the Minoans and Greeks to the Romans. Along the way I have touched on slavery in pre-Roman Europe. This article focusses on Britain and acts… Continue reading
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Colonists and Slavery in Malawi Part 1 – Pre-Colonial Africa, The Empty Land
Introduction Malawi, or the British Central Africa Protectorate as it then was, did not become a British colony until 1891 but the first British people to travel there with an intent to settle were missionaries and they arrived in the… Continue reading
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Romans Slaves at Work
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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Slave Ownership, Markets and Traders in Ancient Rome
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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The Origins of Slavery and the Sources of Slavery and Slaves in Ancient Rome
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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Slavery in Pre-Roman Europe
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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Slavery in Achaemenid Persia, Classical Athens & Sparta
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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Slavery and the Ancient Egyptians, Minoans, Mycenaeans and Archaic Greeks
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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Introduction to the History of Slavery and Slavery in Old Babylonia
Introduction Conversations about slavery often focus on the trans-Atlantic slave trade which shipped, in horrific and inhuman conditions, at least eleven million Africans from their homelands to the Americas. This focus on the “Middle Passage” is unsurprising given the trade’s… Continue reading
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Burton, Speke and Farhan
In May 1854 Lieutenant Richard Francis Burton arrived in Aden having convinced the Royal Geographical Society to fund an expedition to explore Somaliland with the objective of discovering the upper reaches of the Nile. Burton was an officer in the… Continue reading
Travelogues and Other Memories 