Trade of the slaves

The slave is one nobody who is not free condition and finds under the absolute dependence of a Master of which it is the property . Who says property says possibility of exchange: with slavery probably always existed a trade which can be analyzed as an economic activity with whole share (that it is licit or illicit, moral or immoral: for example prostitution).

The trade of the slaves thus go back doubtless to mists of time histories. Its current forms are defined by the expression “Trafic of human beings”.

Etymology and semantic

The oldest appearance of the word trade goes back to the 14th century, time during which also emerged the first traces of the words traffic and milked . These three words will see their directions evolving/moving between the middle of the 16th century and the middle of the 17th century.

Origins (14th century)

Trade and traffic recovered, among other directions, the same significance: the exchange or the sale of goods. The word milked was limited as for him to the concept of goods transport between various countries . It defined too rights charged to the borders on the movement of the goods . Right from the start thus, the word milked implied concepts of circulation or movement between marked geographical areas (borders).

Evolutions (1550-1650 approx.)

Trade and traffic are seen associating a negative connotation. In particular, the word traffic then defines also “the immoral or illicit trade”. The direction of the word milked , as for him, indicates then more precisely the trade enters of the vessels and the inhabitants of a coast . In 1690, appears for the 1st time the expression traitte of the negros .

Contemporary time

The word trade defines the activity which consists in exchanging, or to sell and buy, of the goods, products, values, etc The word traffic continued its negative evolution and takes as direction illicit, generally clandestine trade or it fact of monnayer a nonvenal thing or a moral good . The word milked is regarded as pertaining to the Colonial history. In this historical context, it means traffic carried out of XVI^e century in XIX^e century by certain tradind ships, mainly on the coasts of Africa, which consisted in exchanging food products against local goods and specialities .

The etymology of the word slave (which appears for the 1st time around 1175) deserves, as for it, to see itself quoting in its entirety. The word slave is regarded as: borrowed from the Latin medieval sclavus (10th century), properly “Slavic” (7th century) which is probably a regressive formation starting from sclavone “Slavic” resulting from Slavic primitive the sloveniu . The same evolution took place medieval in Greek. The change of direction of “Slavic” towards “slave” is explained by the great number of Slaves reduced in slavery in the Balkans by the Byzantine Germains and during the Early middle ages.

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