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.
Indigenous African Slavery
Images of African Slavery and the Slave Trade
Source: "Journey of the Discovery of the Source of the Nile" by John Hanning Speke, New York 1869
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