The History of Slavery
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The Makololo: A Zambian Kingdom
Introduction In 1863 the demoralised remnants of the Universities Mission to Central Africa (UMCA) withdrew from the region we now know as Malawi. Their sad story is told in Magomero and the East African Slave Trade. Behind them they left… Continue reading
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The Makololo: Origins and the Mfecane
Introduction Livingstone’s arrival in the Shire Valley in 1859 put in motion a chain of events that in 1891 led to Britain formally taking possession of a land and its people that was initially named the British Central Africa Protectorate,… Continue reading
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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 – 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
Travelogues and Other Memories 