In 1783 in Britain, and most of the world, slavery was an accepted and legal practice.
Sick slave being thrown overboardIn that year, a case was heard before the British courts. The insurer of the slave ship Zong, which carried African slaves from Africa to the Americas, refused to pay a claim for “lost cargo”. That lost cargo was more than 100 sick slaves that had been thrown overboard by the ship’s captain, so that their value could be claimed against the insurers. If the slaves had died of natural causes (their sickness), no claim could be brought against the insurers. The insurers won their case. Efforts to bring murder charges against the ship owners failed. The slaves were not human beings they were goods.
They are both continued even after Acts to end them were put in place.
Explanation: Abolition of Slave trade: In 1807 an Act to end The buying and selling of African slaves was passed. However this did not end the trafficking of slaves from Africa and White rich men continued trading for slaves for personal and monetary gain way after the act was passed.
Abolition of Slavery: The constitutions 13th amendment abolished slavery in 1865 making it illegal to enslave or forcefully use another human for personal gain without their consent, or by way of punishment if the person was found guilty by law.
Imagine that Joseph is an 18-year-old adolescent who lives in Europe during the 1500s. Joseph recently moved out of his family’s home and into that of an expert carpenter to undergo a 7-year apprenticeship. Joseph is experiencing what historians would call life-cycle service.
The above para narrates the explanation of what life-cycle service involves and specify when it was most common in western cultures.
