The so-called Haratin lower class, largely sedentary oasis-dwelling black people, have been considered natural slaves in Sahrawi-Moorish society.

Most are debt slaves, largely in South Asia, who are under debt bondage incurred by lenders, sometimes even for generations.

Mass emigration from Europe, including large numbers of indentured servants, and forced immigration of African slaves largely replaced the Indigenous Peoples.

Soon after they arrived in the islands in 1492, or 1512, the Spanish began capturing the Taínos of the Turks and Caicos Islands and the Lucayans as slaves ( technically, as workers in the encomienda system ) to replace the largely depleted native population of Hispaniola.

Attempts were made to develop Anguilla into a plantation-based economy employing slaves transported from Africa, but the island's soil and climate were unfavourable and the plantations were largely unsuccessful.

Slavery persisted right through the Middle Ages, but it was rare, diminishing and largely confined to the use of household slaves.

The overseers ( largely former slave masters ) were necessary because the slaves would lapse into laziness.

These slaves came largely from Sub-Saharan Africa ( mainly Zanj ), the Caucasus ( mainly Circassians ), Central Asia ( mainly Turks ), and Central and Eastern Europe ( mainly Saqaliba ).

Consisting mostly of slaves, the population was uneducated and largely unskilled.

The cavalry was largely composed of free-born Kurds, Turks, and Turkomans who Ayyubid emirs and sultans purchased as slaves ( mamluks ).

For example, Romanies are considered to be nomadic, which was largely true in Western Europe ; however, the fact that they were slaves and serfs in the Balkans since at least the 15th century ( and until the late 19th century ) implies that they were settled.

The Lesser Antilles ' musical cultures are largely based on the music of African slaves brought by European traders and colonizers.

In that battle, 20 whites and 44 slaves were killed, and the rebellion was largely suppressed.

It also attracted African-Americans, who had previously largely supported the Republican Party due to Lincoln's freeing of the slaves.

Led by ' native ' Baptist preacher, Samuel Sharpe, it was waged largely, though not only, by his Baptist followers amongst the slaves.

A number of early European colonies in the New World were largely plantocracies, usually consisting of a small European settler population relying on a predominantly West African chattel slave population ( as well as smaller numbers of indentured slaves, both European and non-European in origin ), and later, " freed "- Black and poor-white sharecroppers for labour.

When Arzila, in Morocco, was captured by the Moors, and the Jewish captives were sold as slaves, he contributed largely to the funds needed to free them, and personally arranged for collections throughout Portugal.

The church was largely controlled by affluent whites and despite rare actions by clergy, African-American slaves and ex-slaves were largely excluded from participation in the life of the church.

Early historical accounts of the Atlantic slave trade were largely written for a popular audience by abolitionists and former slaves like Olaudah Equiano who emphasized its profoundly negative effects on African peoples.

3, 000 defenders, servants and slaves were present in the largely wooden palace and even with barricades of crates, bales and rubber, there were many casualties from the high explosive shells.

Slaves comprised approximately one-fifth of the population of the states ; and apart from northernmost New England, where slavery had largely been eliminated, slaves lived throughout all regions of the country.

It was largely constructed using the labor of local slaves ( including women ), newly freed slaves who had flocked to Nashville once it was taken by Union forces with the understanding that their status as slaves was to be revoked were they to work for the Union, and by free blacks forcibly conscripted for the work.

The very fact that they came so near to winning by the wrong method, war, led directly to their losing both the war and the wrong thing they fought for, since it forced Lincoln to free their slaves as a military measure.

Along came 40, 000 freed Gothic slaves.

Johnson's reconstruction policies failed to promote the rights of the Freedmen ( newly freed slaves ), and he came under vigorous political attack from Republicans, ending in his impeachment by the U. S. House of Representatives ; he was acquitted by the U. S. Senate.

A case can be made that discriminatory lines came to be drawn more sharply under Athenian democracy than before or elsewhere, in particular in relation to woman and slaves, as well as in the line between citizens and non-citizens.

One important turning point came in the Seven Years ' War, when the British conquered the port of Havana and introduced thousands of slaves in a ten month period.

Bacot came from a wealthy South Carolina plantation family that owned 87 slaves.

Slave traders scoured the Atlantic coast of Africa, and the slaves who arrived came from hundreds of different tribes, their languages often mutually incomprehensible.

It was not until word of France's ratification of emancipation arrived back in the colony that Toussaint Louverture and his corps of well-disciplined, battle-hardened former slaves came over to the French Republican side in early May 1794.

Most of North Africa came under Nazi control and many Jews were used as slaves.

Another influence came from black slaves who had learned the harmonic style of hymns of the church, and incorporated it into their own music as spirituals.

Government revenue came from tribute ( or booty, if the recalcitrant people had to be conquered ), sales of slaves, and duties on and participation in trans-Saharan trade.

Thus, most slaves came from Madagascar and Asia rather than the African mainland.

Some, therefore, of the miserable remnant, being taken in the mountains, were murdered in great numbers ; others, constrained by famine, came and yielded themselves to be slaves for ever to their foes, running the risk of being instantly slain, which truly was the greatest favour that could be offered them: some others passed beyond the seas with loud lamentations instead of the voice of exhortation ... Others, committing the safeguard of their lives, which were in continual jeopardy, to the mountains, precipices, thickly wooded forests, and to the rocks of the seas ( albeit with trembling hearts ), remained still in their country.

It was in Rio that the dance practiced by former slaves who migrated from Bahia came into contact with and incorporated other genres played in the city ( such as the polka, the maxixe, the lundu, and the xote ), acquiring a completely unique character and creating the samba carioca urbana ( samba school ) and carnavalesco ( Carnaval school director ).

The planter came into financial difficulties, and had to sell 18 slaves to settle his debts.

Under the original Fugitive Slave Law of 1793, the responsibility for catching runaway slaves fell on officials of the states from which the slaves came, and the Underground Railroad thrived.

" Conductors " on the railroad came from various backgrounds and included free-born blacks, white abolitionists, former slaves ( either escaped or manumitted ), and Native Americans.

Other members of the trekking parties were of Trekboer stock who came from a life of semi-nomadic herding ; yet others were employees, many of whom had been slaves only a few years earlier.

The term white trash first came into common use in the 1830s as a pejorative used by house slaves against poor whites.

Many human colonists came to colonies as slaves, so the legal power to leave or remain may not be the issue so much as the actual presence of the people in the new country.

Not all of the inhabitants of province were ethnically Dutch, but came from a variety of other European countries as well as African, originally brought as slaves.

President Lincoln signed two Confiscation Acts into law, the first on August 6, 1861, and the second on July 17, 1862, safeguarding fugitive slaves from the Confederacy that came over into Union lines and giving them indirect emancipation if their masters continued insurrection against the United States.

Establishing small settlements provided the new Afro-Guyanese communities an opportunity to grow and sell food, an extension of a practice under which slaves had been allowed to keep the money that came from the sale of any surplus produce.