CRIM 1400 Lecture Notes - Lecture 4: Orlando Patterson, Kevin Bales, Debt Bondage
6 Jun 2018
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A Historical Perspective
Slavery
● “The total control of one person by another person for the purposes of economic
exploitation” -Kevin Bales
● Overlap with definition of human trafficking
○ Total control
○ Economic exploitation
Forms of Slavery
● Chattel slavery
○ Pre civil war
○ Used
● Debt bondage
○ Pledges self or family in exchange in money, debt is paid off through work and
can be passed down through family
● Contract slavery
○ Contract that guarantees work, however, work situation is different than the
contract said
○ Contract is used to enforce servitude
○ Get a second contract that they probably can’t read
History of US Anti-Slave Law
● 1808 - US act prohibiting importation of slaves
● 1865 - 13th amendment preventing holding of slaves
● 1948 - peonage (debt slavery) outlawed on a federal level
○ Sharecroppers
○ Immigrants brought to the south from the north to build railroads, charged for
their transportation
○ Convicts forced to work in field during harvest
Social Death - Orlando Patterson, 1982: Slavery and Social Death
● People not accepted as fully human in a wider society
● Person can be controlled if they are:
○ Isolated from the rest of the community
○ Isolation is the key to a master’s control
○ Introduced to the community as a non-being
● Intrusive concept of slavery - stranger in a strange land
○ Isolation
○ Situation is internalized and you are unable to do anything against it
○ Stockholm syndrome
● Extrusive concept of slavery - living dead
Primary/Secondary Effects
● Primary
○ Victim
● Secondary
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Document Summary
The total control of one person by another person for the purposes of economic exploitation -kevin bales. Pledges self or family in exchange in money, debt is paid off through work and can be passed down through family. Contract that guarantees work, however, work situation is different than the contract said. Get a second contract that they probably can"t read. 1808 - us act prohibiting importation of slaves. 1865 - 13th amendment preventing holding of slaves. 1948 - peonage (debt slavery) outlawed on a federal level. Immigrants brought to the south from the north to build railroads, charged for their transportation. Convicts forced to work in field during harvest. Social death - orlando patterson, 1982: slavery and social death. People not accepted as fully human in a wider society. Person can be controlled if they are: Isolation is the key to a master"s control. Intrusive concept of slavery - stranger in a strange land.
