Earliest+Forms+of+Slavery

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Slavery has been widely practiced throughout the world for thousands of years. In the Middle East, death would be upon anyone who helped a slave escape. Slaves were also an important part of Ancient Greece. The Greek capital of Athens could not have existed as it did without the help of slaves. It is believed that around 450 B.C., slaves made up one quarter to one third of Athens' population of 300,000. In the time of Julius Caesar, there were approximately 2 million slaves in Ancient Rome. Slavery was practiced in most ancient cultures including India until the 1800s and in China until the 1900s. Even in Africa, slavery existed. In times of famine, families would sell their children for food. Africans were also enslaved if they owed any money.=====

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This is a carving of slavery in Ancient Greece. From: http://stoa.files.wordpress.com/2008/08/slavery.jpg   Interactive Games: http://www.slaveryinamerica.org/walkthru/RoadsToFreedom/main2.html    Narratives: http://rds.yahoo.com/_ylt=A0oGkm2ztodJAQkB5xJXNyoA;_ylu=X3oDMTEzbW10NjhwBHNlYwNzcgRwb3MDMQRjb2xvA3NrMQR2dGlkA0gyMzRfMTI1/SIG=121gprmfs/EXP=1233717299/**http%3a//www.wsu.edu/~campbelld/amlit/slave.htm      =====