What three ways were slavery n Africa different from in the Americas?

Answer 1

In Africa they had some legal right and opportunity for social mobility. Some served as generals in the army, and could even marry. In Americas they had a harsh life. They were forced to work long days and suffered beatings. Many lived small, dreary huts.

Answer 2

In Africa slaves were usually adopted by the families into which they were sold. Slaves in Africa could also marry and their children did not have to inherit their parents status as slaves. They could even become important officials and soldiers. And most importantly slavery in Africa was not based on the notion of racial superiority or inferiority like it was in the Americas.

Answer 3

the slaves in the Middle East did more domestic work, and were treated like family. they were looked at as valuable lives and no owner in his mind would harm one. but in the Americas the slaves did mostly plantation work and were treated harshly. they were seen as disposable and were usually replaced in one year cycles

Answer 4

There are two major differences between Slavery in the Islamic World and Slavery in the Americas. The first major difference is the place of origin of the slaves and the second major difference was the occupation of the slaves.

PLACES OF ORIGIN FOR SLAVERY IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
Muslims now went abroad, hundreds of miles from the countries under their control to find non-Arabs that could be brought back to the Islamic Empires as slaves in order to skirt Omar's edict. This was what led to three types of slavery that coincided with the rise of the Islamic Caliphates: Slavic Slave Trade, Mamluks, and the Trans-Saharan African Slaves.

There was a very profitable trade with the Byzantine Empire and the Slavic Fiefdoms in the Balkans and the Ukraine that brought Slavs to the Islamic Caliphates. This is actually the genesis of the modern world "Slave", as a derivative of "Slav" which were moved and resold in the Islamic World. Slaves would be purchased in slave-markets in Europe and trekked to the Middle East for resale. A different group of slaves, the Mamluks, were Kipchak Turks and Circassians from what is now Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan, and Turkmenistan. They were captured by Arab soldiers, enslaved, and brought to Baghdad in Iraq.

The Trans-Saharan Slave trade in Islamic Empires was incredibly developed. Islamic States pioneered many of the quintessential parts of what would define the European Trans-Atlantic Slave Trade in the 16th-19th centuries. This included long-distance travel between the slave acquisition in West Africa and the market in North Africa and the Middle East, the use of large competitive marketplaces in urban centers to auction slaves, the development of legal doctrines about what rights owners had to transfer slaves to other owners, and, contrary to Islamic teachings and modern science, that Blacks had a more bestial nature, making them better-suited to the rigors of hard work and enslavement.

OCCUPATIONS FOR SLAVES IN THE ISLAMIC WORLD
With the wide variety of origin locations for slaves in the Islamic World, there was a corresponding diversity in terms of occupations. Slavic Slaves (Saqaliba) and African Men were typically brought in to do corvée labor and build up the infrastructure of the Islamic World. Quite a number were also brought into agriculture, but nothing on the scale of the massive plantations in the New World. A slaveowner would typically own one or two slaves and very few slaveowners, like the Sultans and nobility, had large numbers of slaves.

African Women were typically applied to domestic tasks and maintaining the home. This would include tasks like cooking, cleaning, and wet-nursing and childcare.

The Mamluks were converted to Islam and then formed into military units as a literal slave army in the service of the Abbassid Caliph. The Mamluks eventually turned their weapons against the Abbassid establishment and declared their own empires several times from the 11th century onwards. In a number of places, the Slavic Slaves also filled this role and became military slaves in Sicily and in the Spanish Taifa Kingdoms. Similarly to the Mamluks in the Middle East and North Africa, the Saqaliba were able to declare their own independent Taifa Kingdom in Denía.

Contrary to numerous myths about slavery in the Islamic World being loving or nonviolent, Arab Muslims saw fit to castrate all of their male African slaves so that they could not form a large Black population in the Arab countries. African female slaves were often sexually abused by their masters.

PLACES OF ORIGIN FOR SLAVERY IN THE AMERICAS
Slaves bound for the Americas overwhelmingly came from the West African coasts. The local African Kings and Tribal Chieftains sold enemy captives to the Europeans in exchange for iron and European manufactures. The Europeans set up a number of fortresses from Guinea to Angola in order to procure the slaves and used shipping companies to bring them to the markets in the New World, like New Orleans, USA or Cartagena, Colombia. Slaves were almost exclusively Black Africans and while there were European Indentured Servants and some White Slaves, these were a small minority.

OCCUPATIONS FOR SLAVES IN THE AMERICAS
The primary purpose for slaves in the America was heavy agricultural labor (the plantation system for the cultivation of tobacco, cotton, and sugarcane). In fact, male slaves, who were generally more capable of the rigors of this kind of agriculture than female slaves, were imported at a rate of 2.75:1 and the regions where slaves were most bought corresponded almost perfectly to the areas where heavy agriculture was prevalent.

However, like in the Islamic World, African Women were typically applied to domestic tasks and maintaining the home. This would include tasks like cooking, cleaning, and wet-nursing and childcare.

The extent of the cruelty of slavery in the Americas is well-documented and popularly known. There were often whippings, beatings, shootings, and other forms of violence between slaves or former slaves and masters or former masters. In areas of Latin America with particularly high concentrations of African Slaves, Africans' flight into the jungles of South and Central America was common and got the particular name of cimarronaje. The Africans, once in the jungle and beyond European reconnaissance built the same kinds of tribal encampments in which they used to live in Africa, but with other escaped slaves as opposed to tribesmen.

Answer 5

Slaves in Africa were often treated more like family members.

Answer 6

what were tow ways in which people took actions against slavery?