Slavery Systems Worldwide Discussion

Instructions: Please follow the detailed information given in the syllabus about the Discussion Requirements, Grading Policy and other Course Requirements.

Please note:

This discussion has 2 parts: You must first post your own comments before you can read other students’ posts. You must then respond to at least one of the other students’ discussions (Discussion Response). Your response must be relevant to that student’s arguments. You must give some comments, suggestions and/or examples in your response to the student. You don’t have to do the Discussion Response at the same time you do the first part.

This discussion will be graded as explained in the “Course Requirements – Online Discussions” section of the syllabus. You must fully respond to the assignments in the discussion topic. Your discussions must include references from the relevant course readings as explained in the syllabus.

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The Discussion and Discussion Response will close as announced in the Weekly Schedule.

Discussion Highlights:

Chattel slavery in USA, as we will examine in this course, was an economic system that had a component of ownership of human beings as personal property (commodities). This system also treated these slaves as of an inferior race.

A slave being of an inferior race is not a requirement in all systems of slavery.

Slavery, being dynamic, exists today in many forms. Also, there are a lot of economic models today that are equivalent to systems of slavery even if they do not own the workers as personal property. Some of these economic systems continue to “own” the workers in other ways.

Discussion:

From how you now understand slavery, discuss the many forms of slavery (worldwide) today and how, even though the workers may not be “owned” by the employers, there is very little “humanity” when it comes to the treatment of these workers. Specific examples would help your discussion.