Ancient Chinese Slaves by julian cotter

Ancient Chinese Slaves

Men

Age

Woman

Age

Children

Age

They commonly bought children, mostly young girls, trained them to dance and sing, and resold them as entertainers. Such slaves were sold at much higher prices than other slaves; an ordinary young slave man sold at 15000 cash and an adult slave woman at 20000 cash, while in the biography of King Chi-pei, it is recorded that around 160 BC he remarked boastfully of having paid 4,700,000 cash for four girls trained to do tricks

Poor

No payment

Country Slaves

Would live in the paddocks

City Slaves

Would live on the streets

Foreigners

Captured

Punishment

Terra Cotta Army

Help build Great Wall

Castration

Were deprived of there rights and connections to their families

Their families siezed and kept as property by the government

Diet

Rice

Pork

Duck

Northern China the poor ate wheat noodles, steamed bread and bean curd.

Spring Rolls

Dumplings

Housing

No House

Clothing

Footwear

Pants

Shirts

As a slave you would only get two linen shirts, two pairs of pants, one jacket, one pair of shoes, one pair of socks, an overcoat, and a wool hat. This may have been ideal, but not common.

Jobs

Cook

Wash

Marriage

Slaves could not marry

Wars

They would capture soldiers on th border of the country and use them as slaves

Religion

Toaism

Legal

One human being is legally the property of another

Most slaves were owned by the state instead of belonging to individuals.

Wang Mang was the first to set the basic outlines of rules regarding slavery and slave trade

In ancient China, the lives of slaves were the hardest of all Chinese. Many rich Chinese families had slaves to do the menial work for them, both in the fields and at home. The Emperor and his court usually owned hundreds or even thousands of slaves. Most people were born slaves because their mothers were slaves; other people were sold into slavery to pay debts and others were captured in raids or battle

Free people became slaves for crime

The government also sold slaves

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Population

Chinese slavery did not originate during the former Han dynasty (206 BCE.- CE 25), but it expanded rapidly at that time

They commonly bought children, mostly young girls, trained them to dance and sing, and resold them as entertainers