+1 862 207 3288 A: According to this excerpt gives the perspective that slavery seems to be an inherent part of human nature that transcends culture and is by no means anything new to this particular era of history. It also says that the vikings brought back slaves from their conquests of foreign lands and also gives the example of slaves being from impoverished areas of Ireland where many children were orphaned or homeless, leading to the viewpoint that slavery is an inevitable byproduct of warfare and conquest or from being poor and viewed as disposable. The excerpt naturally raises the question of how slavery became associated with people of African descent. Yet it appears to only give partial answers to this question and raise even more questions. For example, it says that since the catholic church frowned on enslaving other Christians, it ruled out bringing large amounts of European slaves to the new world. However, it makes you wonder what in the catholic church’s reasoning entitles Christians to be free of enslavement by other Christians but gives the OK to enslave non Christians. Also, it did not answer as to why Native Americans were not the preferred people to enslave. It would seem logical to enslave people who already know the land and could readily communicate with non-enslaved natives during trade and times of war.
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