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Slavery In The 17th And 18th Centuries

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Slavery Slavery was a condition in which a human being was owned by another, slaves were forced to do jobs with low wages, they were never treated as humans and at that time they were treated like property not like humans, the most frequent way to get slaves was to capture them in war, other slaves were kidnapped on expeditions and some others were enslaved as a punishment for crime or debt and others were sold into slavery by their parents or any other relatives. There have been two types of slavery and the most common was household or also called domestics slaves which rarely worked outside the house. The other major type of slavery was productive slavery. Slavery was practiced throughout the American colonies in the 17th and 18th centuries,
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