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Britain and the suppression of slavery in Ethiopia.pdf - 1 views

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  • Slave-owning was a status symbol.
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      In Ethiopia there was a good stigma in owning a slave. When someone had one slave or more they would be respected and well reputed this may have been because slaves where used for labor so Ethiopians knew that if a person had more slaves there is a high possibility for them to be wealthy because the slaves would cultivate for them
  • At this time they were generally referred to by the derogatory term Shankilla, meaning black, and were regarded as a virtual reservoir of slaves. 1
  • A group of seventy captives - the men chained, the toddlers strapped on to mules - had walked through the very middle of his camp. A starving old woman, alone in a hut, said her six children had been carried off by raiders. A few survivors were eking out a living hiding in caves in the hillsides. The chief of Shoa Gimirra was selling off the local people as fast as possible -little boys for five Maria Theresa dollars and big ones for ten (about £1 sterling).
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      This abstract narrates how slavery left Ethiopia devastated when Chief of Shoa Gimirra was overtrading Ethiopians to the slave trade. Many residents ended up running away from their homes and abandoned their villages to escape being traded and many had also been traded, this resulted to a large surplus of food and plants that had nobody to eat them because the population had drastically decreased as a result of slavery.
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  • Three survivors, living on roots and berries
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      The people who ran away from their homes resided in camps where they were hiding and in those camps there was a scarcity of food while on their villages food was in abundance.
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Slavery ; supplementary report - Document - Slavery and Anti-Slavery: A Transnational A... - 1 views

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  • https://link.gale.com/apps/doc/DS0103259657/SAS?u=rau_itw&sid=bookmark-SAS&xid=8e4bc94c&pg=8
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      The last paragraph on page 28 emphasized that the slave trade and slavery were indeed legal practices in Ethiopia that were approved by the Ethiopian government along with other parts of Africa. It further elaborates on Ethiopia's involvement in the slave trade on page 29 where we are informed that Ethiopia was the supplier of the slave market in Arabia and other parts of the world. On page 29 it is stated that the number of taxpayers decreased which resulted in an increased number of enslaved people because when people could not pay taxes they had to trade a child for enslavement. Page 29 confirmed that the Ethiopian government denied the allegations of Ethiopia participating in the slave trade or any form of slavery.
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Revisiting Slavery and the Slave Trade in Ethiopia.pdf - 1 views

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  • 25 Ethiopia connected the Nile Valley with the maritime space and was a hub for the Red Sea and the Indian Ocean trades, and for the Ottoman world. There were three main outlets for slaves in Ethiopia: Mätämma on the Sudanese border, Massawa catering for the Red Sea trade, and Taǧ ū ra for the Indian Ocean. 26
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      This information informs us about the involvement of Ethiopia in the Indian Ocean Slave trade. It explains to us how Ethiopia participated in Slavery and slave trade by providing hubs for the transportation of the slaves that would come from East Africa and travel via the Indian Ocean route.
  • Child tributes were levied on lesser landlords of the region, and on the subordinate peasant population unable to pay tax in another form. 43 With the center demanding all sorts of tributes, šayḫ Ḫ waǧ alī increasingly raided the population, and he “revived the slave raiding and hunting, and gold mining using slave labor . ” 44
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      It is elaborated that not only did Ethiopia participate in the global slave trade but it also practiced slavery locally by enslaving children who were traded by their families who could not pay taxes. Ethiopia used those children along with other men and women to do domestic labor for the Royals, economic activities( gold mining and cultivation)
  • Ǧ imma was not based on “tolls and dues” from the slave trade, but instead that “slavery, as opposed to the slave trade, could be said to have occupied a crucial position in the economic system of the kingdom.” 5 1 He characterizes Ǧ imma as a slave economy, “in which slave labor signifijicantly afffects the production process.” 5
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      This extract informs us that some villages in Ethiopia such as the Gimma village did not rely on trading slaves to other country but they relied in slavery because they used the slaves as laborers to produce in the country and strengthen the economy of Ethiopia. Slavery benefited the economy of Ethiopia because the slaves were efficient and low cost labor which meant that costs of production would be low and the country would make more revenue out of the economic activities that were performed and in that was the economy was stimulated by slavery.
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  • Black intellectuals and activists in the Americas rejected the idea of slavery existing in Ethiopia: Ethiopia, the beacon of Pan-Africanism and the archetype of many black identities could not be a slave society. 83 Sla very must belong only to European imperialism and the American plantations, and not to this territory, royalty, and lineage enshrined in the Bible. Following that logic, Ethiopia, a state that promoted and hosted the foundation of the Organization of African Unity in 1963, could not be associated with issues of servitude and exclusion. Even in the 1980s, when a military junta ruled the Ethiopian state, the Därg gave much attention to the tyranny of the former regime, and radically transformed the system of land tenure, but the complexities of local slaving societies were overshadowed by the “national question” and the liberation of cultures from the feudal order. Class distinctions as well as political afffijiliations obstructed the discussion on slavery. Ethiopian intellectuals, who have so often been at the forefront of social and political change, seem to be still refusing the idea that slavery
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      This paragraph conveys that Ethiopia was not meant to have participated or have been involved in stimulating slave trade from the on going because Ethiopia was the learner of the Organization of African Unity therefore it was supposed to have been African representatives and fight against African enslavement instead of acting as a mediator of the global trade slave. It further explains tells us that the Ethiopian government denied that Ethiopia participated in slavery, however, written resources evidence that Ethiopia was indeed involved in slavery and some researchers concluded that in some part of Ethiopia slavery is still practiced till this day.
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slavery in ethiopia - Google Search - 1 views

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  • https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/01/ethiopian-emperors-and-slavery/
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      nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
       
      This blog summarises how one would become a slave in Ethiopia, that if one would commit a crime they could be punished by being temporarily enslaved, or when one was failing to settle their debts they would also be enslaved or if you were born or married by a slave you could also be enslaved. It also discusses that some of the government officials in Ethiopia who denied Ethiopia's involvement in slavery also had slaves in their residence to do domestic work.
  • https://blogs.loc.gov/law/2012/01/ethiopian-emperors-and-slavery/
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Library - Diigo - 1 views

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  • nompilomkhize on 26 Apr 23
     
    The picture depicts children( children who were traded by their families for slavery when they were unable to pay taxes to the kings or landlords in Ethiopia) men and women who were enslaved to do domestic work in the royal palace or gold mining and cultivation in order to grow the economy of Ethiopia.
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