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1. en.wikipedia.org › wiki › List_of_slave_ownersList of slave owners - Wikipedia

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   4 days ago · James G. Birney (1792–1857), an attorney and planter who freed his slaves and became an abolitionist. [40] James Blair (c. 1788 –1841), British MP who owned sugar plantations in Demerara. [41] Simón Bolívar (1783–1830), wealthy slave owner who became a Latin American independence leader and eventually an abolitionist.

2. www.britannica.com › topic › slavery-sociologySlavery - Family, Property, Ownership | Britannica

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   Sep 16, 2024 · Slavery - Family, Property, Ownership: A major issue was whether the master had to allow the slave to marry and what rights the owner had over slave offspring. In general, a slave had far fewer rights to his offspring than to his spouse.

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   Sep 28, 2024 · Contract for her purchase, Roman London, c.90 AD, dug up at No 1 Poultry in 1994, as deciphered by Roger Tomlin. In some human societies there were slaves who owned slaves. Although details varied, there were two broad cases: peculium slavery, and elite political slavery.

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   1 day ago · Slavery is the ownership of a person as property, especially in regards to their labour. [1] Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage.

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   8 hours ago · The Slave Compensation Act 1837 raised £20mn (equivalent to around £2.8bn today) to fund compensation to slave owners for the loss of their “property” resulting from the Slavery Abolition ...

6. www.britannica.com › topic › slavery-sociologyMaster-slave legal relationships - Encyclopedia Britannica

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   Sep 16, 2024 · The master-slave relationship was the cornerstone of the law of slavery, and yet it was an area about which the law often said very little. In many societies the subordination of the slave to his owner was supposed to be complete; in general, the more complete an owner’s control over his slave, the less the law was likely to say about it.

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   What is the relationship between productive slavery and a slave-owning society?

   • A major theoretical issue is the relationship between productive slavery and the status of a society as a slave or a slave-owning society. In a slave society, slaves composed a significant portion (at least 20–30 percent) of the total population, and much of that society’s energies were mobilized toward getting and keeping slaves.

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   What did the law say about the master-slave relationship?

   • The master-slave relationship was the cornerstone of the law of slavery, and yet it was an area about which the law often said very little. In many societies the subordination of the slave to his owner was supposed to be complete; in general, the more complete an owner’s control over his slave, the less the law was likely to say about it.

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   What does it mean to be owned by an enslaved person?

   • To be owned by an enslaved person by no means guaranteed kind treatment. "Pomponius, a second-century jurist, mentions a slave who prostituted the ancillae (women-servants) who were part of his peculium ". In 1994 there was dug up in the City of London the remains of a Roman writing tablet.

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   Was a slave a movable property?

   • The slave was a species of property; thus, he belonged to someone else. In some societies slaves were considered movable property, in others immovable property, like real estate. They were objects of the law, not its subjects. Thus, like an ox or an ax, the slave was not ordinarily held responsible for what he did.

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   Sep 16, 2024 · Under slavery, an enslaved person is considered by law as property, or chattel, and is deprived of most of the rights ordinarily held by free persons. Learn more about the history, legality, and sociology of slavery in this article.