I was most imprecise in my earlier comments. Some societies have statutorily prohibited mistreatment. In the American until 1830 you could terminate your slave. Thereafter, mistreatment ostensibly limited, though in practice slave owners did as the wished.
In no case, though, did any Ibo tribesman sign up to be ripped from his home and family, chained for a transAtlantic voyage, and sold into slavery for the rest of his life.
And indentured servants assuredly did not. |
