Drescher, Chapter 13 from page 380
1. How does poverty coerce people to enter slavery voluntarily? Refer to the “Indian Poor Law”
2. By the time the World Anti-Slavery Convention was held in 1840, how many people were
enslaved by British citizens?
3. What was the nature of the antislavery movement in the Ottoman Empire?
4. When Slavery as an institution was outlawed in Tunisia and among the Beys, what was the
rationale?
5. How did women fair in the anti-slavery or abolitionist movements world wide?
6. At the Brussels convention in 1890, what became the morale rationale for European Domination
in the African Continent? Refer to the “Scramble for Africa.”
7. What were the rationales and legal precedents for enslaving Africans and Asians through the
1800s? Reference “wage labor” and “English Masters and Servants Act”
8. What was the British relationship between the anti-slavery movement and the slave trade and
institution of slavery through the 1800s?
9. What was the purpose of the Berlin Conference in 1874? The Brussels Conference of 18891990? (page 396)
10. How did the nature of forced labor change with the development of “free labor ideology”? what
were the mechanisms of control? There are three the author lists.
11. Where did the French expand their institution of slavery in Africa?
12. What is the difference between “slave raiding” and “labor recruitment”?
13. During World War I, what was the belief among capitalists about economic development and
the necessary type of labor? What were obstacles to freedom during the World War I era?
14. During the 1920’s How did the League of Nations address slavery? What was the language that
was used to continue slavery? How did the Forced Labor Convention of 1930 address it? Was is
effective?
Drescher, chapter 14
1. What was the Soviet Gulag? What was the nature of the labor systems in the Soviet Union?
Initially (1930-1950s)who were those deemed fit for forced labor and how did that change
throughout the duration of the war? Provide examples and statistics.
2. What role did slavery play for The German and Austro-Hungry Empire, Russia, Japan, and
America during the Great Wars? Provide statistics when Available.
3. In 1933 the German elite argued to advance the idea of “natural slavery”, what did this mean?
Where have you heard it before? (p. 428)
4. How does Drescher compare German exploitation of labor during World War II to the TransAtlantic Slave trade? What is Pan-European Slavery? What was the Ethnic Hierarchy created by
the Nazis and how could it change?
5. To what do the following terms refer: “The Hunger Plan” “performance feeding” “masterServant divide”
6. What is the significance of Article 4 of the United Nations (1948) and how did it impact the
institution of slaver after 1948? (make a reference to the 1970s and 1980s)