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Adrienne Lisa Slaper, age 61, Elko, NV View Details

Cities: Elko NV Possible Relatives: Ken Lee Brensel, Mary A Brensel, Mason Edwin Brensel

B Slaper, age 90, Palm Beach Gardens, FL View Details

Cities: Palm Beach Gardens FL, West Palm Beach FL, Enfield CT Possible Relatives: Leslie Kaern Offer, Gregg J Slater, Richard Saul Slater

Alison N Slaper, age 46, Rosedale, MD View Details

Cities: Rosedale MD, Cockeysville MD Possible Relatives: Ashley Nicole Biggs, Clifton Brown, Devon Harry Brown

Ashley Dianne Inselman, age 52, Bloomington, IN View Details

Cities: Bloomington IN, Washington DC Possible Relatives: Angela Nicole Battle, Kenneth Roy Inselman, Roy W Inselman

Arnold Slaper, age 88, Olympia, WA View Details

Cities: Olympia WA, Tumwater WA Possible Relatives: Susan Lee Holliday, Austin C Slater, Caleb O Slater

Anne Marie Slaper, age 63, Marana, AZ View Details

Cities: Marana AZ, Tucson AZ Possible Relatives: Carol Anne Blythe, Maria Ofelia Cooper, Brenda Marie Gurrola

Slavery in ancient Rome

Slavery in ancient Rome played an important role in society and the economy. Besides manual labour, slaves performed many domestic services and might be employed at highly skilled jobs and professionsread more.... Accountants and physicians were often slaves. Slaves of Greek origin in particular might be highly educated. Unskilled slaves, or those sentenced to slavery as punishment, worked on farms, in mines, and at mills.read less...

Slavery in the 21st century

Contemporary slavery, also sometimes known as modern slavery or neo-slavery, refers to institutional slavery that continues to occur in present-day society. Estimates of the number of enslaved people read more...today range from around 38 million to 46 million, depending on the method used to form the estimate and the definition of slavery being used. The estimated number of enslaved people is debated, as there is no universally agreed definition of modern slavery; those in slavery are often difficult to identify, and adequate statistics are often not available. The International Labour Organization estimates that, by their definitions, over 40 million people are in some form of slavery today. 24.9 million people are in forced labor, of whom 16 million people are exploited in the private sector such as domestic work, construction or agriculture; 4.8 million persons in forced sexual exploitation, and 4 million persons in forced labour imposed by state authorities. An additional 15.4 million people are in forced marriages.read less...

Slavery in Brazil

Slavery in Brazil began long before the first Portuguese settlement was established in 1516, with members of one tribe enslaving captured members of another. Later, colonists were heavily dependent onread more... indigenous labor during the initial phases of settlement to maintain the subsistence economy, and natives were often captured by expeditions called bandeiras. The importation of African slaves began midway through the 16th century, but the enslavement of indigenous peoples continued well into the 17th and 18th centuries.read less...

Slavery in Britain

Slavery in Britain existed before the Roman occupation and until the 11th century, when the Norman conquest of England resulted in the gradual merger of the pre-conquest institution of slavery into seread more...rfdom, and all slaves were no longer recognised separately in English law or custom. By the middle of the 12th century, the institution of slavery as it had existed prior to the Norman conquest had fully disappeared, but other forms of unfree servitude continued for some centuries.read less...

Slavery in ancient Greece

Slavery was an accepted practice in ancient Greece, as in other societies of the time. Some Ancient Greek writers described slavery as natural and even necessary. This paradigm was notably questioned read more...in Socratic dialogues; the Stoics produced the first recorded condemnation of slavery.read less...

Slavery in the Ottoman Empire

Slavery in the Ottoman Empire was a legal and significant part of the Ottoman Empire's economy and traditional society. The main sources of slaves were wars and politically organized enslavement expedread more...itions in Africa, Southern Europe, Eastern Europe, the Balkans, and the Caucasus. It has been reported that the selling price of slaves decreased after large military operations. In Constantinople, the administrative and political center of the Ottoman Empire, about a fifth of the 16th- and 17th-century population consisted of slaves. Statistics of these centuries suggest that Istanbul's additional slave imports from the Black Sea have totaled around 2.5 million from 1453 to 1700.read less...