slavery

Examples of slavery in the following topics:

• Slavery

  • An example of modern slavery is much of the sex industry in Thailand.
  • Historically, slavery was institutionally recognized by many societies.
  • Slavery predates written records and has existed in many cultures.
  • It is the most widespread form of slavery today.
  • Slavery is rare among hunter-gatherer populations, as slavery is a system of social stratification.

• Families and Inequality

  • Cultures that practiced slavery might admit that slave marriages formed but grant them no legal status.
  • Likewise, slave marriages in the United States were not binding, so that many contrabands escaping slavery during the American Civil War sought official status for their marriages.
  • Among the rights distinguishing serfdom from slavery was the right to enter a legally recognizable heterosexual marriage.

• Social Definition of Race

  • Following the World War II, alongside empirical and conceptual problems with "race," evolutionary and social scientists were acutely aware of how beliefs about race had been used to justify discrimination, apartheid, slavery, and genocide.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • For instance, during the social upheavals of the Reconstruction era in the United States, former slaves, whose kinship ties were forcibly disrupted under slavery, forged new communities that shared aspects of both Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft.

• Racism

  • This perspective argues that African-Americans, in particular, in the U.S. have had their opportunities in life adversely affected due to the mistreatment of their ancestors (see slavery, Sundown Towns, Jim Crow, and The War on Drugs).
  • Notable examples include the omission of Christopher Columbus as the founder of the slave trade, the racial basis of early American governmental decisions to support or oppose Independence and Freedom movements in other countries (e.g., anti-slavery administrations (like that of John Adams) supported Independence attempts by other colonies while pro-slavery administrations (like that of Thomas Jefferson) opposed these attempts and provided support to colonial powers in these contests), and the re-segregation of the federal government (which paved the way for many Jim Crow laws and Sundown Towns) by Woodrow Wilson.

• Race and Ethnicity in the U.S.

  • African Americans arrived in North America under duress as slaves, and there is no starker illustration of the dominant-subordinate group relationship than that of slavery.

• Value Contradictions

  • The practice of slavery represents a value contradiction between wealth and liberty.

• Segregation

  • After the Thirteenth Amendment abolished slavery in America, racial discrimination became regulated by the so-called Jim Crow laws—strict mandates on segregation of the races.

• Gemeinschaft and Gesellschaft

  • The social upheavals during the Reconstruction era of the United States complicated the sociological category of gemeinschaft because former slaves, whose kinship ties were complicated under slavery, forged new communities that shared aspects of both gemeinschaft and gesellschaft.

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