Slavery

BY FATIMA SANKOH
What is
slavery?
● Slavery is the condition in
which one human being is
owned by another.

● A slave was considered

property, or chattel and
was deprived of most of
the rights held by free
persons.
Affected
people
● The Transatlantic slave trade
was a segment of the global
trade that transported between
10 to 12 million enslaved
Africans in Central, East and
West Africa.
 The impact of slavery

● The slave trade has produced devastating effects in Africa. The impacts of slavery include depopulation,
mistreatment and punishment of slaves.

● The impact slavery has had on individuals in Africa has involved economic incitement for warlords and tribes to
take part in slave trade promoted by anarchy and brutality.
Domestic Laws
Slavery Abolition act 1883
● The slavery abolition act was made to abolish slavery in
most British colonies. This act freed more than 800,000
enslaved Africans in the Caribbean and South Africa.

Chapter 8- Offences against humanity 270.2

● Chapter 8- Offences against humanity 270.2 states that
slavery remains unlawful, and its abolition is maintained,
despite the repeal by the Criminal Code amendment Act
1999.
International
laws
The International covenant on civil International covenant on Civil and political rights
and political rights states that:
● No one shall be held in slavery;
slavery and the slave-trade in all
their forms shall be prohibited.
● No one shall be held in
servitude.
Interventions
● The issue of slavery had been addressed by the 13th amendment sections 1 and 2 shown below:

● Section 1 of the 13th amendment states that “Neither slavery nor involuntary servitude, except as a
punishment for crime whereof the party shall have been duly convicted, shall exist in the United
States or any place subject to their jurisdiction.

● Section 2 of the 13th amendment gives Congress the “power to enforce” that ban by passing
appropriate legislation.
Success of
measures
● The 1965 ratification of the
Thirteenth amendment had the
effect of abolishing slavery in
the United States.

● The congress had used its

power to enforce the ban on
slavery.
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