a. When and how did slavery in the southern state?
Slavery recorded went as far back as the civilisation of Sumer, which spans over the Uruk period (5th millennium BC), followed by the proto-historical early dynastic period (early 3rd millennium BC) and the dynastic period of Sumer proper in the mid 4th millennium BC, until the conquest of Sumer by the Akkadians around 2400 BC. Native Sumerian rule re-emerged for about a century in the so-called Sumerian Renaissance of the 21st to 20th century. It started when people had a shortage of workers and did not want to pay the workers their salary, thus they became slaves against their own will.
b. Which country/countries did the slaves come from?
Slaves mostly came from Africa with about 12 million to 27 million brought out of their country each year. The women and children were mostly brought to the sex industry which eventually would go into the drugs.
c. Who traditionally bought and owned the slaves?
The white people mainly bought and owned the slave. They normally own companies or factories for these slaves to work in.
d. Were there rules/ laws that the slaves had to abide by? If yes, what were they?
The slaves were not allowed to own any piece of land, get married, to testify in court for any sort of cases and have family. Any other rules/laws would most probably made up the slaves' owner.
e. How does the nation of slavery relate to the novel? Does the study of slavery help you understand the novel better?
It helps by telling me why there was a need to have slaves during that period of time when manpower was needed, and with limited amount of money, nobody had a choice but to go into slavery.
