Not enslaving people would be a pretty decent alternative methinks.
I actually didnt think of that. I've been on the internet too much
Not enslaving people would be a pretty decent alternative methinks.
Not enslaving people would be a pretty decent alternative methinks.
From my understanding isn't forced labor an inherent feature of large scale pre-industrial societies?I actually didnt think of that. I've been on the internet too much
Slavs most likely - keep russia divided and the tatars strong and you have an ample market
From my understanding isn't forced labor an inherent feature of large scale pre-industrial societies?
You need to be more specific on what do you mean by ‘forced labor’. Most of the pre-industrial European states did not have slavery and some of them did not have even servitude as the main ‘institution’. OTOH ‘forced labor’ as in ‘forcing convicts to work’ was pretty common even for the industrialized states.
What about Chinese slaves instead.
While the British were certainly capable of treating other Europeans cruelly (just ask the Irish), would Western European colonial powers really do business with Muslims to purchase massive numbers of light-skinned Christians to toil as slaves in the fields? That seems like a move that could easily garner huge backlash, though perhaps the folks behind the slave trade could justify it by saying that these people will be treated better in the Americas than they would under the Turks. Even that seems like a stretch, though.
The African-Atlantic slave trade was founded by... who, again? Right. Europeans.
What about Chinese slaves instead.
No , there are countless stupid ideologies contradicting themselves.So the Germans were unique in the whole biological race aspect?
Acadians never made up more than 30% of the francophone regions they migrated to.Well, we often forget about Le Grande Dérangement (I think that’s how it’s spelled) in Acadia which dispersed the Cajuns throughout North America. Perhaps the Cajuns are simply enslaved instead? Or maybe they’re not enslaved, but put into a system of inherited indentured servitude, and more Irish, Scottish, Welsh, and later Italians are brought over as indentured servants.
OTL Malagasy died at higher rates than West African due to time and distance, I doubt many South and East Asians could make it in the chattel ships.Slaves from Asia, but generally from India, Nusantara and East Asia. I made a thread once about the subject: WI: Asian slaves in 16th century America.
So, given what has been discussed in here in terms of how other forms of slavery are infeasible, how would the early plantation economies of the West Indies, which in turn inspired later economies on the continent, develop in response to the new legislation?
How large was African participation in the Arab slave trade? As you know, the Atlantic slave trade, African people, tribes, and kingdoms would sell slaves to European clients. Was the same thing prevalent in the Arab slave trade, or did Arabs themselves along with Arabized Africans enslave people?<knowledge>