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  2. Slavery in Africa - Wikipedia

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    [2] [163] The slave trade across the Sahara and Red Sea from the Sahara, the Horn of Africa, and East Africa, has been estimated at 6.2 million people between 600 and 1600. [2] Although the rate decreased from East Africa in the 1700s, it increased in the 1800s and is estimated at 1.65 million for that century.

  3. Colonial roots of gender inequality in Africa - Wikipedia

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    The colonial roots of gender inequality refers to the political, educational, and economic inequalities between men and women in Africa.According to a Global Gender Gap Index [1] report published in 2018, it would take 135 years to close the gender gap in Sub-Saharan Africa and nearly 153 years in North Africa.

  4. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    People unable to pay back debts could be sentenced to work as slaves to the people owed until the debts were worked off, as a form of indentured servitude. Warfare was important to Maya society, because raids on surrounding areas provided the victims required for human sacrifice, as well as slaves for the construction of temples. [114]

  5. Female slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Their daily work was less demanding than the field labor of enslaved women in other regions. Nonetheless, enslaved women in New England worked hard, often while enduring poor living conditions and malnutrition. "As a result of heavy work, poor housing conditions, and inadequate diet, the average black woman did not live past forty." [15]

  6. Enslaved women's resistance in the United States and Caribbean

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    Margaret Garner as depicted in Harper's Weekly c.1867. Infanticide was an act of rebellion because it allowed enslaved women to prevent the enslavement of their children. . Due to partus sequitur ventrum, the principle that a child inherits the status of its mother, any child born to an enslaved woman would be born enslaved, part of the enslaver's property

  7. Slavery - Wikipedia

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    Slavery typically involves compulsory work, with the slave's location of work and residence dictated by the party that holds them in bondage. Enslavement is the placement of a person into slavery, and the person is called a slave or an enslaved person (see § Terminology ).

  8. History of women's rights in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    It looked mainly at bullying, corporal punishment, and gender violence in schools and the community, which has shown ways in which schools foster gender and sexual violence as well as corporal punishment. [9] Girls' attendance in school in South Africa may face challenges due to various factors, including distance to schools and gender-based ...

  9. Slavery in South Africa - Wikipedia

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    After failing to obtain cattle and local people willing to work by negotiating with them, Van Riebeeck introduced slavery in the Cape Colony. [3] The first slave, Abraham van Batavia, arrived in 1653 ("van Batavia" meaning "from Batavia ", the name of Jakarta during the Dutch colonial period), and shortly afterward, a slaving voyage was ...