AHL 1100 Lecture Notes - Lecture 1: Babylonian Law

• School: University of Ottawa
• Department: Interdisciplinary Study in Arts
• Course: AHL 1100
• Professor: Dr.Allina, Dr.Terretta, Dr.Grabowski

Document Summary

There are many forms of slavery, many (cid:272)o(cid:373)(cid:373)o(cid:374)alities. La(cid:448)ery is (cid:374)ot al(cid:449)ays a disti(cid:374)(cid:272)tio(cid:374) (cid:271)et(cid:449)ee(cid:374) (cid:862)sla(cid:448)e(cid:863) a(cid:374)d (cid:862)free(cid:863), there is a grey area. A villain (per babylonian law), means someone bound to the land and lacks other freedoms but cannot be sold, is not property. Slaves running away is a vital part of slave experience and treatment by owners/ masters. There is great importance on visibly marking slaves, serving to be identified to a certain owner or plantation, it also dictates treatment in social contexts and is dehumanising to the slave. Attention to some categories of people may be enslaved, from the bible, same religion is safe, otherwise is slavery. Subordination and dependence are essential to the experience of slavery. Slaves have fewer, virtually no rights and are stripped of the ability to make decisions. Forced labor, dehumanisation, exploitation, isolation, exclusion, property, status, inequality and lack of compensation.