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How were the rights granted to slaves in west african cultures different than those in the atlantic slave trade? and we have four options here.
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So there are very different types of slavery practiced in west africa compared to in the atlantic, in the americas.
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So the american slave trade is what we call chattel slavery.
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So basically, they were people treated as property.
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And you could treat them really as you would your property.
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If you wished to kill them, that would be acceptable.
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Their children would automatically be slaves as well.
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It was particularly brutal.
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In west africa, they had a variety of different types of slavery.
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There were a lot of cultures, but for the most part, they had domestic slavery.
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Now, this might be people who owed debt and they became slaves to pay off their debts.
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It might be people who had been captured in a war.
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It might be people who their parents were slaves and had died and not left anything to the children, so the children became slaves as well.
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But generally, it was a lot easier for a west african slave to become free.
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In the americas, it was near impossible.
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It was very racially based, in west africa, a lot less so.
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So if we go through these, was it the case that slaves could not wear clothes in west africa, but could in the atlantic? this is not the case.
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West african slaves could wear clothes...