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Discuss Slave Mode of Production in 19th Century Africa

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INTRODUCTION.
Slavery is defined as an institution or social practice of owning human beings as property, especially for use as forced laborer (oxford English Dictionary 8th Edition).
Slavery is a very important aspect of African history. Historical records show that slavery in Africa was widespread. Infact, even before Africa had an encounter with the Transatlantic slave trade, slavery was already being practiced in Africa but in a different form. Slavery appears in the Mesopotamian code of Hammurabi(C 1860), which refers to it as an established institution.
Although Marxi’s own historical moment was dominated by the capitalist mode of production, slavery was not a peculiar institution in the mid-19th century. When Marx was forty-two years old in the 1860, there was about 6million enslaved Africans in the New world, two thirds of whom were imprisoned in the American South.
Eugene Genoverse argues that southern slavery was in conflict with capitalism and created a powerful and remarkable social class. Slavery built up capitalism, while capitalism destroyed slavery. Other scholars argue that profits from colonial slavery fueled Britain’s remarkable industrial take off.
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