Aug 21, 2023 09:35 PM
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https://youtu.be/npwqbh9bQuE
VIDEO EXCERPTS: An international study of slavery described the Dalmatian Coast as one of the most continuously productive sources of slaves in human history. Drawing not only from the largely Slavic population of that region, but also from other Slavic peoples from farther east in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Centuries before the first African was carried in bondage to the Western Hemisphere.
Slavs were being enslaved on a massive scale. Russians by the hundreds of thousands were being enslaved by Turkish raiders. And Slavs along the Dalmatian Coast were being enslaved by other Europeans, for at least six centuries. While various groups of Slavs sold one another into bondage, as well as competing with Iranians, Turks, and others to enslave before being enslaved.
Slavs were so widely sold into bondage that the very word for "slave" was derived from the word for Slav in a number of Western European languages, as well as in Arabic.
[...] Like other culturally fragmented, economically backward and politically disunited peoples around the world... The Slavs of East Central Europe were subjugated in many ways. As serfs owned by their own or foreign nobles; as slaves sold in the slave markets of Europe and the Middle East; and as peoples conquered by the Ottoman, Habsburg, and other empires. Such fates appeared in succession or in combinations over a period of centuries.
[...] Serfdom entailed not merely subservience, but also a loss of the right to move. Serfs who sought to flee were often tortured when captured, sometimes by having their hair set on fire and their noses split. Below the serfs on the social scale were the slaves. The main differences between them being that serfs belonged to the land and were supposed to be sold only jointly with the land. Rather than as personal property that could be sold separately, anywhere, at any time. Moreover, surfs had certain rights. Though the fact that most of these rights were enforceable only in courts set up by noble landowners made those rights somewhat tenuous when it came to disputes with those landowners themselves.
Slaves, however, lack deep in these precarious protections; and could be bought, sold, bartered, or even killed by their owners. Sometimes people were enslaved locally for crimes, or for debt. And some poverty-stricken peasants sold their children into slavery in order to survive when the family could not feed itself....
The hidden connections between geography and Slavs' enslavement
https://www.youtube-nocookie.com/embed/npwqbh9bQuE
VIDEO EXCERPTS: An international study of slavery described the Dalmatian Coast as one of the most continuously productive sources of slaves in human history. Drawing not only from the largely Slavic population of that region, but also from other Slavic peoples from farther east in the Caucasus and the Balkans. Centuries before the first African was carried in bondage to the Western Hemisphere.
Slavs were being enslaved on a massive scale. Russians by the hundreds of thousands were being enslaved by Turkish raiders. And Slavs along the Dalmatian Coast were being enslaved by other Europeans, for at least six centuries. While various groups of Slavs sold one another into bondage, as well as competing with Iranians, Turks, and others to enslave before being enslaved.
Slavs were so widely sold into bondage that the very word for "slave" was derived from the word for Slav in a number of Western European languages, as well as in Arabic.
[...] Like other culturally fragmented, economically backward and politically disunited peoples around the world... The Slavs of East Central Europe were subjugated in many ways. As serfs owned by their own or foreign nobles; as slaves sold in the slave markets of Europe and the Middle East; and as peoples conquered by the Ottoman, Habsburg, and other empires. Such fates appeared in succession or in combinations over a period of centuries.
[...] Serfdom entailed not merely subservience, but also a loss of the right to move. Serfs who sought to flee were often tortured when captured, sometimes by having their hair set on fire and their noses split. Below the serfs on the social scale were the slaves. The main differences between them being that serfs belonged to the land and were supposed to be sold only jointly with the land. Rather than as personal property that could be sold separately, anywhere, at any time. Moreover, surfs had certain rights. Though the fact that most of these rights were enforceable only in courts set up by noble landowners made those rights somewhat tenuous when it came to disputes with those landowners themselves.
Slaves, however, lack deep in these precarious protections; and could be bought, sold, bartered, or even killed by their owners. Sometimes people were enslaved locally for crimes, or for debt. And some poverty-stricken peasants sold their children into slavery in order to survive when the family could not feed itself....
The hidden connections between geography and Slavs' enslavement