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Slavery in Africa in context of Master-Slave relationship in 'Waiting for Godot'
- 1. Name : Gausvami Surbhi A. SEM : 3 Paper no : 10 Submitted to: Dr. Dilip Barad, Department of English, MKBU university. Roll No: 23 Enrollment No: 2069108420170008 Email id: gausvamisurbhi17@gmail.com Batch-year: 2016-18
- 3. Pozzo Sadistic master Powerful, Rich and Certain of himself Body Material side Lucky Submissive slave Inferior and exploited slave Teacher of Pozzo Mind Spiritual side
- 5. Began in the 7th century by two non-African slave traders Arab Muslims and Europeans. Arab Muslims sent thousands of slaves each year to North Africa and parts of Asia. Europeans bought millions of slaves in west and sent them to Europe. Caribbean, North, central and south America. Buying and selling of slaves were regular activities in Africa.
- 6. (1) Chattel Slavery (2) Debt slavery (3) Forced Slavery (4) Serfdom
- 7. Chattel slaves are property. They have no rights and expected to perform labor and sexual favors at the command of slave master. Chattel slavery still exist in Islamic North Africa.
- 8. Labor is provided by the persons who owes the debt. It is impossible for bonded to escape from debt because it is multiplied during during the period bondage. Africa has it’s own unique version of debt bondage: Pawnship.
- 9. “ Unfree labor” Forced labor as the name implies was based on the threat of violence against the laborer.
- 10. Farm slaves, under control of a landlord. They have to work on other landlord’s farm. A Serf also required permission to marry, to sell goods, to change their occupation.
- 11. Africa not a continent but small country Tiny country with no distinct traditions, cultures, or ethnic groups All African look the same
- 12. Slavery has existed since antiquity Most slaves in Africa were war captives Once enslaved an individual has no personal or civil right Owners can order slaves to do any kind of work, punish them, and sell them as Chattel Most slaves work in Agriculture Slaves were a form of investment and sign of wealth A detailed system for capturing, selling, and distributing slaves had been in place for over 500 years With the arrival of the Europeans and the demand for slaves in the America, the slave trade expanded dramatically
- 13. Slaves were sold at Auctions Buyers physically inspected the slaves, to include their teeth as an indication of the slave’s age Slaves perform various acts to demonstrate their physical abilities First Auction: New Amsterdam (Dutch- New York City)
- 14. (1) Loss of Population (2) Society was disrupted (3) Cities were Distorted (4) Contact with the outside world ended (5) Africa as inferior
- 15. “master-self-consciousness‟ and a “slave-self-consciousness” are interconnected. Struggle for recognition No equality in the dialectic relationship. Each of them prove themselves by life-death struggle Master is ‘recognized’ , Slave is recognizing. The Slave Realizes Himself Through Work and Becomes Eventually Master Master-Slave both are interdependent and complementary characters
- 16. ‘Domination’ is the worldly Human desire. Healthy society exists for the sake of higher person. ‘Will to Power’ is the basic thing for the development of society. Noble man stands “Beyond good and evil”. “Master-Morality” Values of master “Slave-Morality” the virtue are sympathy, kindness and humanity. Psychological vanity of slaves Inferior people naturally see the superiority of their masters. No Universal rational morality is exists.