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Slavery is integral to the social, economic, and political history of Central Asia. Polities of different sizes and structures such as nomadic confederations, [12] agrarian city-states, [13] and empires [14] all engaged in and at various times promoted the enslavement and trade of people and the exploitation of their labor. [15]
Slavery in China has taken various forms throughout history. Slavery was nominally abolished in 1910, [ 1 ][ 2 ][ 3 ] although the practice continued until at least 1949. [ 4 ] The Chinese term for slave (nuli) can also be roughly translated into 'debtor', 'dependent', or 'subject'. Despite a few attempts to ban it, slavery existed continuously ...
Slavery was an important feature of the Muslim conquests of the Indian subcontinent. [6][7] André Wink summarizes the period as follows, Slavery and empire-formation tied in particularly well with iqta and it is within this context of Islamic expansion that elite slavery was later commonly found.
e. The history of slavery spans many cultures, nationalities, and religions from ancient times to the present day. Likewise, its victims have come from many different ethnicities and religious groups. The social, economic, and legal positions of slaves have differed vastly in different systems of slavery in different times and places. [1]
Forced labour and slavery. The Indian Ocean slave trade, sometimes known as the East African slave trade, involved the capture and transportation of predominately black African slaves along the coasts, such as the Swahili Coast and the Horn of Africa, and through the Indian Ocean. The areas impacted included East Africa, Southern Arabia, the ...
Slavery in Korea. Slavery in Korea existed in various forms from its origins in antiquity over 2,000 years ago to its gradual abolition in the late Joseon period, beginning in the 18th century and culminating in 1894. The nature of the nobi system is widely debated, with scholars agreeing that it constituted a form of serfdom until at least the ...
t. e. The Art of Not Being Governed: An Anarchist History of Upland Southeast Asia is a book-length anthropological and historical study of the Zomia highlands of Southeast Asia written by James C. Scott published in 2009. [1][2] Zomia, as defined by Scott, includes all the lands at elevations above 300 meters stretching from the Central ...
Early slavery in Japan. The export of a slave from Japan is recorded in the 3rd century Chinese historical record Wajinden, [1] but it is unclear what system was involved, and whether this was a common practice at that time. These slaves were called seikō (生口 "living mouth"). In the 8th century, slaves were called Nuhi (奴婢) and laws ...