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Indigenous African SlaverySource: "Journey of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile" by John Hanning Speke, New York 1869
Indigenous slavery in West Africa, known as pawnship, differed somewhat from the chattel slavery of the trans-Atlantic trade, since pawns would live amongst a similar culture. Pawns would, however, still be restrained against escape.
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