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True! In the year 1000 A.D, nearly half the population of England was in
some sort of involuntary servitude, ranging from chattel slavery and convict
slavery to serfdom or indentured servitude. However, slavery was on the way
out in Western Europe when it was reintroduced by the Muslim conquests. For
example:
960: Doge of Venice Pietro IV Candiano reconvened the popular assembly and
had it approve of a law prohibiting the slave trade
1102: Trade in slaves and serfdom condemned by the church in London: Council
of London (1102)
1117: Slavery abolished in Iceland
1200: Slavery virtually disappears in Japan; it was never widespread and
mostly involved captives taken in civil wars.[5]
1214: The Statute of the Town of Korčula (Croatia) abolishes slavery.[6]
1215: Magna Carta signed. Clause 30, commonly known as Habeas Corpus, would
form the basis of a law against slavery in English common law.
~1220: The Sachsenspiegel, the most influential German code of law from the
Middle Ages condemns slavery as a violation of God's likeness to man.[7]
1256: The Liber Paradisus is promulgated. The Comune di Bologna abolishes
slavery and serfdom and releases all the serfs in its territories.
1274: Landslova (Land's Law) in Norway mentions only former slaves, which
indicates that slavery was abolished in Norway
1315: Louis X, king of France, publishes a decree proclaiming that "France
signifies freedom" and that any slave setting foot on the French ground
should be freed.[8]
1335: Sweden (including Finland at the time) makes slavery illegal. An
abolition of slaves setting foot on Swedish ground does not occur until
1813.[9]
1368: China's Hongwu Emperor establishes the Ming dynasty and would abolish
all forms of slavery.[3] However, slavery continued in the Ming dynasty.
Later Ming rulers, as a way of limiting slavery in the absence of a
prohibition, passed a decree that limited the number of slaves that could be
held per household and extracted a severe tax from slave owners.[10]
1416: Republic of Ragusa (modern day Dubrovnik, Croatia) abolished slavery
and slave trading
1435: Papal Encyclical - Sicut Dudum - of Pope Eugene IV banning enslavement
on pain of excommunication.
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The fact is for slavery to be economical you need a constant supply of new
captives to exploit and work to death. Warfare with the Muslim countries and
the raids on Europeans by the Barbary Pirates of North Africa (some as far
north as Iceland) reintroduced the constant supply of new captives. The
warfare in sub-Saharan Africa also provided a constant supply in captives to
both the western European colonies in the Americas and to the Muslim
countries.
"According to Peter Hammond, in his book, Slavery, Terrorism and Islam: The
Historical Roots and Contemporary Threat, he notes the following:
- Trans Atlantic slave trade to the Americas lasted for just over three
centuries, but the Arab involvement in the slave trade has lasted fourteen
centuries, and in some parts of the Muslim world is still continuing to this
day.
- The mortality rate for slaves being transported across the Atlantic was as
high as 10%, but the percentage of slaves dying in transit in the Trans
Sahara and East African slave trade was between 80 and 90%.
- Almost all the slaves shipped across the Atlantic were for agricultural
work, but most of the slaves destined for the Muslim Middle East were for
sexual exploitation as concubines, in harems, and for military service.
- Many children were born to slaves in the Americas, and millions of their
descendants are citizens in Brazil and the USA to this day, but very few
descendants of the slaves that ended up in the Middle East survived.
Tidiane N'Diaye, author of "The Veiled Genocide," further confirms that
there were few descendants of African slaves in the Middle East, because
those who arrived via the Trans-Saharan transport into the Arab marketplace,
were castrated. Only 1-5 survived this dangerous operation. All had to
undergo this procedure if they were to work on the Arab plantations, as
household servants or as guards of the harem. The Arabs were racists and
despised the blacks, which is why they didn't allow black slaves to have
children in their countries.
Read more at
http://clashdaily.com/2014/05/
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See also "Slavery By the Numbers" by : Henry Louis Gates Jr.
http://www.theroot.com/
w_for_black_history_month.1.
"17. Here's an interesting one: "Over a million Europeans were held as
slaves from the 1530s through the 1780s in Africa, and hundreds of thousands
were kept as slaves by the Ottomans in eastern Europe and Asia," writes Alan
Gallay in his essay "Indian Slavery in the Americas" for the Gilder Lehrman
Institute. "In 1650," Gallay adds, "more English were enslaved in Africa
than Africans enslaved in English colonies."
In the Mozart Opera "Die Entführung aus dem Serail" (The Abduction from the
Seraglio) 1782 - The hero, Belmonte, seeks to rescue his betrothed,
Konstanze, who with her English servant Blonde has fallen into the hands of
pirates and been sold to be in the harem (AKA a seraglio ) of the Turkish
Pasha Selim.
1952: Qatar abolishes slavery.
1958: Bhutan abolishes slavery.
1960: Niger abolishes slavery (though it was not made illegal until
2003).[71]
1962: Saudi Arabia abolishes slavery.
1962: Yemen abolishes slavery.
1963: The United Arab Emirates abolishes slavery.
1970: Oman abolishes slavery.
1981: Mauritania abolishes slavery.[72][73][74]
2003: Niger makes slavery a crime.[75]
2007: Mauritania makes slavery a crime.[76]
Although slavery is now de jure illegal in all countries, de facto practices
akin to it continue today in many places throughout the world.[77][78][
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By Epictetus
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