What is another good name for slave auction?
We have a slave auction fundraiser happening at our school soon but I need a alternative name since "slave" is not really appropriate! What's is a good name?
In slave auctions why were they naked??
It had nothing to do with genitals or whip marks. They wanted to determine the overall health and physical condition of a slave they were considering purchasing. This was more effective when they were naked, although teeth and eyes were usually a focus of buyer's attention- to look for signs of disease. An experienced slave-owner could assess a potential slave's health this way. When you consider that horses underwent similar examinations when they were up for sale, the moral-depravity of slavery is all the more horrifying. A peculiarity of slave-holding was branding slaves; a hand tattoo or brand meant they were a thief (an 18th-century rendition of the "five finger discount" analogy). Of course, such marks would damage the slave's resale value. To further degrade slaves, they were often given pompous names like Pompey or Caesar, a response to "uppity" attitudes.
CNN reports slave auctions happening in Libya? Africans are still enslaving other Africans?
Slavery is still practiced in many countries. The biggest offenders are in Africa and the Middle East, followed by Asia. You could consider sex trafficking to be slavery so there is a small amount in the United States. Most Americans are unaware that only about 12% of the slaves taken from Africa came to the United States. South America got most of them.
What were some of the harsh conditions slaves endured in the slave institution?
In the first two (2) American Republics, this is largely a myth. "Uncle Tom's Cabin" can be found in the fiction section of the library. Slaves were property held in title, as opposed to indentured servants who were held in lease. Most of the European immigrants to colonial America came as indentured servants, effectively slaves by lease until lease expiration. Incidentally, orphans from Great Britain were "sold" into indentured servitude in Canada as recently as the 20th century. Because slaves were titled property, they had cash value. Because of their value, they were generally well-treated. They were clothed, fed and received the same medical care as their owners. Slavery, as practiced in the United States in agribusiness, was a cradle-to-grave private welfare system. For example, a buyer at a slave auction would look for swollen ankles. A swollen ankle indicated the slave had been shackled. Normally, only troublemakers and runaways were shackled, and such a slave would be worth less money. Slaves were brought into a colony, only when it was considered safe (from Amerinds, starvation, etc.) to do so. Another way to understand this peculiar institution is to consider that a good slave field hand was far more valuable than a dirt poor freeman, who worked longer hours at the same task with less to eat and little medical care. Even during the so-called Civil War, owners of slaves were hostile to the government's use of them in constructing fortifications, because such work often endangered them. The very same owners had no such reservations about their sons being shot and killed. An example of harsh conditions occurred in parts of Louisiana when occupied by Union forces. The slaves had no value to the U.S. soldiers, who called them "contraband." Basically, the Union forces watched the slaves starve to death.