The Mahdi Times May 2014 Issue | Page 50

On the issue of slavery most of what we know as slavery amongst Africans themselves and ancient Black Arab societies was NOT for the most part chattel slavery. It would be better described as 'clientage' where because of poverty people work for others who have wealth in exchange for food or protection. That is not slavery. The reasons those forms of servitude existed and do exist in Africa amongst Africans/Indians today is because of extreme poverty or very weak security. It's similar to share-cropping NOT slavery. Those people have a choice to stay or not, but running away can be more dangerous ECONOMICALLY. When you serve people for economic reasons or for protection it is NOT slavery. But it can be taken advantage of by the people who have more power in the relationship and abuse tha Ё