Truuue although obviously slavery has evolved from chains and metal balls tied to their ankles ( unless a genuine horror story ) and become now more the kind of human trafficking and prostitution and the like.
It is a horror that should be cracked down on. Slave owners dehumanise these poor people. No one should be a slave and it is concerning that we do not actively do more against it.
Evliya Celebi described the process: A man who has not seen this market has seen nothing in this world. There a mother is severed from her son and daughter, a son from his father and brother, and they are sold among lamentations, cries for help, weeping, and sorrow
1. THERE WAS NO SLAVERY IN EUROPE!!!, because there was always more people than work to do and food! People could procreate much faster than available food and work! Why would anybody feed a slave, if there is no food to feed children?!?!?! 2. ABSOLUTELY FALSE INFO! If there were any slaves or large population movements in Europe in the last 20 or so centuries, you would see very diversified races in multiple Europe areas. In reality, European nations are very homogeneos! See how American South and North nations look like. Compare that to European nations!
@Endurance_ACEthe Muslims were Nazis in WW2 and they worked with the Ustasha to put thousands of Serbs and Jews into death camps such as Jasenovac and Gradishka Stara. During the 90s wars, members of the Taliban joined the Muslim side and they used to keep Serb victims in silos and take their organs. You want to spread hate? Expect to educated in your ignorance
Parallel to the sub-Saharan African slave trade - both the folks from that slave trade and the Slavic slave trade got their initial justification from the pagan status of each demographic group. But as black Africans and Slavs converted to Christianity, conveniently the justification was suddenly changed to ethnic / racial grounds to justify enslavement - because of course it was.
Yes, that's what they said at the end of the video, which is why KnG stated they will be covering this topic more closely soon. East European human trafficking is part of today's slavery.
But depends on the skin coz the African slaves where forced to worked in farms and live a horrible life but where as a light or white skin slaves (all male talking) were used in either military or in academic area and there freedom were granted after some year or when they were adult or when they are in very high position so yeah all ethnicity were a part of slavery but it also varied based on what ethnicity you were
@@SeikhSayedAaman-qm6fxthat's not even true... White slaves were definitely treated poorly and worked hard labor as well. Depends on the time and region. Another thing not talked about when it comes to the American slave trade is black Africans were the ones that rounded up the people and sold them to the slave traders that came over by boat. Also, I don't know why African Americans always seem to think that American slavery was by far the worst compared to all other slavery. It makes zero sense.
in ~ 1880 the father of my grandmother who was vising Istanbul coming from Lebanon to study in military school or the school of war was shocked when he saw a young girl of Slavic looks being sold in the market, she was almost 8 years old, a mere child crying and standing in the cold , he said he couldn't just pass by that awful evil market where as many were being sold there after a raid or a small battle, he bought her and bought an older man than himself when he returned to Lebanon he right away sent them free, but she was too young and didn't know anyone and had no family to return to while the older man took care of himself, she learned a bit of Arabic, named herself Aisha and worked as a nanny or a house keeper, until she married and lived her own life, later on in her life she told them that her village was part of the Russian lands and the ottomans just invaded and took everything they could in that war. to this day i remember this story that my grandma told me about her nanny that her dad bought from his younger years there as a true horror story
@@danielforerocagreed. I listen to a lot of people online and in real life talk about how awfully white people treated other groups of people historically. As someone who’s not white myself, it kind of takes people aback when I turn around and ask them, “how much do you know about the Ottomans?” That’s always a fun conversation…
This sounds either like a fabricated story or an anachronism to me. After the Serbian Uprisings (1804-1813) the Slavic Slave Trade decreased significantly due to the resistance in the region and Serbia becoming more autonomous over time. During the reign of Mahmud II. (1808-1839) the enslavement of peoples from the Caucasus was officially prohibited in 1830 as part of his reform efforts. During the Tanzimat (1839-1876) where the Ottoman Empire came under increasing European influence and pressure the Slave Trade in the Empire as a whole declined even further - to the point where slavery was for the most part limited to outlying parts of the Ottoman Empire. These factors make the veracity of a story about an open slave market with Slavic slaves in Constantinople in the 1880s highly questionable.
The Babary pirates employed by the Ottoman Turks not only captured Slavs but raided Europe as far as Iceland looking for slaves for the slave markets of North Africa.
@@TheSouth-j7f commander of barbary forces were ottoman commander of the navy khairdeen barbarossa U speak r7bbish North africa was ottoman except morroco Being ottoman has nothing with being a turk my grandfather was ottoman and he is arab sheikh Naval wars were happening before islam between europe and north africa Barbary forces were protecting north africa from crusaders They saved millions of andulsian muslims and jews
Make a video about the Turkic slave trade Turkic slaves were the basic nucleus of the eastern Islamic armies since the second half of the ninth century, and Turkic slaves founded many important dynasties (Tulunids, Ghaznavids, Khwarezmians, Mamluks)
Turkic slaves played a very active role not only in the establishment of empires such as the Mamluks in Egpyt and Ghaznavids in Iran, but also in the collapse of the Tang Empire in China. In addition, An Lushan, a half-Turkic commander, started the largest civil war in the world at that time, causing the death of millions of people.
@@sumwon6973 The Mamluks are divided into two groups. Bahri and Burci. The Bahri dynasty are the soldiers who ended the Ayyubid state and founded the Mamluk state. and they are Turks. then comes the Burci dynasty, who ended the Turkic dynasty, and they are Circassians.
* The sunflower was native to North America and seeds were brought back to Europe in the 16th century. I doubt you would see fields of sun flowers like in the intro.
They intended to invoke a pastoral image of slavic areas, which today would most definitely include sunflowers, and just made an error extrapolating that back.
Native to the Americas but introduced in Europe in the 16th century. The Portuguese introduced , sugar cane , coffee, rice , cows , goats , coconuts , soya , chickens , mangos , horses , grapes , roses , apples and many other things in Brazil in the first decades of the 16th century , I think that the Spaniards brought sunflower seeds to Europe in 1500.
@@Nuclear_WeoponMore like 4 centuries, and Germanic Europeans were the biggest losers since 4000 bce all the way until 1500ad when they (Spain) became world power
These people didnt get a pseudoscience made about them tho the Atlantic slave trade is totally different type of slavery a very unique new type that had not been done before. This isnt my opinion its just facts.
@@rickyjames4228 oh please sthu prejudice for one's ethnic group has always existed ever before the americas were discovered and slavery was just a natural byproduct of that
In the time of the Crimean Khanate, Crimeans engaged in frequent raids into the Danubian principalities, Poland-Lithuania, and Muscovy. For each captive, the khan received a fixed share (savğa) of 10 percent or 20 percent. The campaigns by Crimean forces categorize into sefers, declared military operations led by the khans themselves, and çapuls, raids undertaken by groups of noblemen, sometimes illegally because they contravened treaties concluded by the khans with neighbouring rulers. For a long time, until the early 18th century, the khanate maintained a massive slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Caffa was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets. Crimean Tatar raiders enslaved between 1 and 2 million slaves from Russia and Poland-Lithuania over the period 1500-1700. Caffa (city on Crimean peninsula) was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets. In 1769, a last major Tatar raid resulted in the capture of 20,000 Russian and Ruthenian slaves.
There was one concubine price list based on ethnicity made by the Tatars, iirc Slavs were among the most expensive ones while Circassians were ranked first and Romanis almost free costing around 5 units of their currency
Indeed, this is perhaps the greatest arena of Slavic slave trade there was. Even so it's not mentioned much in the video, but perhaps they have a dedicated video to just this topic coming up.
The English word "thēow" was replaced by an Old French word derived from medieval "sclave" which referred to Slavic peoples who were taken and traded as slaves throughout the Mediterranean for the entire medieval period. Most of these slaves were imported by Islamic kingdoms. It continued well into the Ottoman era. The Arabic word for slave "saqlabī" is derived from Greek "sklaveni" refering to a Slavic person.
So it is true that word slave originates from slav. The word slav itself means word or glory in the slavic languages. Glory is fame when people speak words about you. So the initial meaning of slav is "word" .
Saqlabi doesn't mean a slave in Arabic it means a Slavic as in the ethnicity, and they were usually sold by Venetians and Byzantines to the Arabs since Arabs never had any borders or wars with the Slavic people.
@@andriilink5666 the etymological root of the "slave" is in medieval latin "Sclavus" originally meaning Slav...and the connection between latin "Sclavus" is same as in modern adjective "slavic", which comes from "people of the word (=slovo)", "slava" is irrelavant in this case
Slavs refer to themselves as slavs. I am a slave. My father was a slave and his father was a slave too. Even my great great grandfather was a slave. We have been slaves for many generations. We... are best described by the word..... a slave. I am proud to be a slave and have always taken great pride to be someone's slave! Do you see now how ridiculous this sounds?
It's kind of crazy, how much moral standards have changed in the last few centuries. It's hard to imagine a cargo ship sailing from port to port across Europe, carrying slaves along with ordinary cargo, and everyone is fine with it. The customs officials in Vienna check your cargo hold and find fifty Slavic women chained up along with some crates of vodka and honey, and the response is just, "Yep, everything checks out here. Carry on..."
Slavery is still going on in Africa, Middle East and Asia not to mention the smuggling of women and children across the US southern border. The cartel have evil use for them. Slavery isn’t as in your face as the past but it is still happening.
Literally decade ago there were slave labour camps western and southern europe where they took passports of eastern europeans and forced them to pick vegetables, while western politicians and society did absolutely nothing about it, because 'it was good for economy'. Meanwhile they were virtue signalling with gay parades and paying huge benefits and housing for people from Africa and middle east to not work but procreate :)
@@Potato-mu7nu He also made huge historic mistakes. He doesn't know much about the early Slavic history. This has been really disappointing to watch as a historian.
Wanted to say the same thing. Sunflowers are native to North America. One of the few plants domesticated north of Mexico, along with pawpaw fruits, cranberries and blueberries. Sunflowers didn’t show up in Europe until the late 1500s and the late 1600s in far Eastern Europe. So this sad tale only works if this fair Ukrainian maiden was enslaved in 1710 or thereabouts…
You forgot about the Khazars, who started the whole trade with Slavic slaves to Muslim dominions. In any case in the end, all those Khazars, Avars, Pechenegs, Kumans, Vikings, Tatars and others got a beating from the Slavs and today they are only learned about in books and the Slavs are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe.
the vikings made the foundation of today' biggest slavic countries. the tatar's got a beating from russians specifically, not from all slavs. and many of today's slavs aren't that slavs anymore (especially the south ones). but yes, linguistically the slavic languages are the most widespread in europe
Scandinavians involved in the business were also pagans. The reason why it were slavs was they were numerous, divided, relatively primitive as for social and economical development and militarily weak.
"The reason why it were Slavs" Most of them were 3n$!@v3d by steppe raids from Muslims. This video focuses on European part too much, obvious bias. The number of Slavs 3n$!@v3d by Scandinavians as compared to Muslims is minuscule, orders of magnitude difference. This channel always does this, Muslims working for the channel.
@@marcanton5357 you can write the word "enslaved", it's in the dictionary, it's not intrinsically a bad word and you don't need to do whatever that was. Please.
Thats bullshit. Slavs were equally developed as Scandinavians. Raiding villages and small settlements of your neighboring ethnicum isnt the same as open warfare.
@@pawelkaras7231 You'd be surprised how discerning the algorithm is and how many categories it tracks. It's ok for you to use it, if I did, almost certainly the reply would get deleted. Not all accounts are treated equally.
Very well scripted and carefully balanced presentation of this topic, and credit to you for exploring this. Many have no real idea of the origins, mechanisms and motivations of enslavement. Well done.
Using the word "Slavic tribe" is part of anitslavic propaganda popularized by German scholars in XIX and early XX century as part of dehumanizing Poles, Czechs and Russians. Equalizing early Slavic social organization to African tribes of XIX century, was part of rationalization/explanation why Germany and Austria are superior and have right to rule over primitive Poles and Czechs. In Latin early Slavic social organizations were called during it's time pagus (plural pagi) which more advanced term than tribe, and of course one again simplifying to the point where it was assumed that every group of Slavs on a territory of several million kilometers and hundreds of years was the same and had the same system -> tribe.
да, при этом славяне мылись в бане, пока европейцы жили в грязи, испражнялись на стены своих домов. европа, особенно англия - примитивные племена, которые до сих пор имеют проблемы с гигиеной.
And there you go doing the same thing you claim to African tribes but on an even larger scale, to an entire continent that had plenty of rich and sofisticated kingdoms . Isn’t it ironic? 😂
Yes, there was (and probably still is subconsciously in the minds of current Germans and Austrians) the idea that we Slavs are inferior, more primitive, etc., but using the word "tribe" isn't wrong or historically incorrect at all. Every European nation has its roots in ancient tribal people who came to present day areas. The Germans are also descended mainly from the ancient Germanic tribes. Celts, Italians or Scandinavians as well, there is nothing strange about that.
0:12 I just started watching this video. It's not a big deal, but I wanted to point a small anachronism. Sunflowers are not native to Europe. They are from the Americas. They were domesticated by Native Americans, and brought over much later.
The Slavic victims of this horrible slave trade deserve to be remembered like the victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Slavic victims deserve monuments and memorials.
Many slaves from Eastern Europe rose to high office as slave officials in Byzantium and in the Ottoman empire . Others became soldiers , workers and artisans . Many Slavic women became concubines . Nomads from Central Asia regularly raided Slavic areas for slaves until states developed .
Nogai Tatars had the wildest raids some incursions even went beyond the Eastern Slavic areas and reached the lands of their Baltic relatives also though unrelated there is a Tatar (Lipka) populace in Poland & Lithuania
@@nenenindonu Who are the Nogai Tatars? Another fictional nation? The Nogais managed to survive only in the Caucasus, despite the fact that almost all of them were killed, the rest were resettled from their native lands by your beloved Russian Slavs. So whose raids were the wildest?
So happy someone finally placed Croatia correctly on the map. In the Balkans Croatia was the fist independent Slavic nation and for some reason we are often overlooked. This has earned my sub,comment and a like.
And southern Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Hercegovina (Zahumlje and Travunia) they were not part of medieval Croatia, but Serbia under the rule of Estern Roman Empire. And it is exactly shown on the map.
@@DraganCacak-t5d We were independent and you were not. You were vassals. Therefore we were here before you had a independent state before you. Serbs today claim they were the first ones but real historians know that is not true, just same old propaganda from Belgrade.
Show me the coins minted by Croatian rulers? No "Croatian ruler" minted his own money! So much for Croatia's independence. In contrast, every Serbian medieval ruler minted his own money.
@Agram_propaganda Serbian Dusan's empire is not propaganda. The only prpoaganda is the "old Croatian" rulers, and none of them minted money with their image. So much for who was the vassal.
@@DraganCacak-t5d Typical propaganda, Dusan this Dusan that, like he even was Serbian. His capital was in Macedonia,he was born in Macedonia and conquered Serbia from Macedonia and somehow he is Serbian.
Word Słowianie (Slavs) come from the word "słowo" (word), so basically meaning people who could be understood. In opposite to Niemcy (German) who come from word "niemy" (one that cannot speak). The theory with name Slavs coming from slaves is German XIX c. propaganda. The story with slavery is true though
The word "slave" in English, and many other European languages, actually comes from the widespread enslavement of Slavic people in the Middle Ages. It originates from "Sclaveni," a Slavic tribe that was frequently captured and sold as slaves across medieval Europe. This trade became so common that the Latin word "servus" (meaning "slave") was replaced by "Sclavus" in medieval Latin. The French word "esclave" reflects this change, and English adopted it after the Norman conquest. Eventually it morphed to "slave".
Name Slavs coming from Slava, it is a Slavs, not slOvs 😂 Slava means "glory" ..."Slava Rodu" as slavic greeting. It's a old pre-Christian custom of celebrating ancestors as family protectors, with gathering and fiests. Only slavic nation that still celebrating Slava are Serbs. In situation when.certan group of people capture few unknown people and ask them who you are, they answered "slAvens/slAvs/slAveni" end there you get "Slavs" for enslaved person. Sorry for my English and good luck!
@karczameczka I am a Serb , so slovo is a word indeed , even in serbian language ,same with german example. But we are not.SlOvs 😂 The oldest written slavic language is -Old Church SlAvonic/SlAvic-. I can't find any pronunciation of Slavs with a O.
The initial justification for the Portuguese and Spanish slavery of black Africans(and also any non-Christian) was also religious. According to a papal bull (Dum Diversas), they should convert those that they captured, so in converting them, the slave masters saved their slaves souls from hell. As saving a soul is priceless, the price the forced convers would have to pay was lifelong servitude to those that had "saved" them. As the descendants of the convert would also be Christians and thus their soul was saved from hell, they too should pay the price of lifelong servitude. Only with the Illuminism, hundreds of years after the start of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the racial justification began to gain traction. As religious importance in society was diminished, those who defended slavery needed another justification to the horrible acts. The "salvation" merely changed from the soul to the mind, as the "science" of the time started to link black African physical traits with low intellect, violence and animalistic behavior. To a lesser extent the same thing was said about South Italians, Slavs, Native Americans and, as European power projection expanded, Asians.
@@rishikeshwagh history buffs usually know which plants were introduced after the discovery of the Americas, because they had such an impact of european agriculture. Potatoes, sunflowers, tomatoes, chili, maze, paprica etc.
There is a disconnect here. The proposition was - Slavs were enslaved because they were pagan because Christians and Islam forbade enslaving their own. It was the Norsemen, Vikings who did most of the enslaving during this trade. The Norsemen/Vikings were pagan.
Vikings wouldn't have gotten involved in such a notorious trade if there weren't kingdoms and empires that had a demand for unpaid labor. Religion shouldn't pardon their own actions. And when that demand inevitably turned into a dependency, it contributed to the decline and fall of such a kingdom or empire.
I knew the Slavic slave trade was big in the medieval world, but I didn't really know any details beyond that. Thank you for another excellent educational video! God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
@@محمدالجعلي-م2ت He means the transition "you may not have to worry about being sold but you do have to worry about your information being sold which is why we use Nord VPN" 😅
WELL THAT WAS DEPRESSING... Thanks for making this video. It's a mature theme and a necessary part of human history, and we need to acknowledge it and its consequences so as to not perpetuate the practice and its horrors.
How slavery got it's name. English "slave" come from latin "sclavus". Word "slaven; sloven; slovan; slovian..." is variants of slavic word for themselfs like group of specific people (in that times there were no nations) coming from word "slava" wich traslated to english means "glory". It was part of their religeous beliefs...
This video has some absolutely horrendous mistakes. Let me address some: 3:12 About the clarification that "the Slavic slave trade wasn't targeted at Slavs per se". Are you sure? The English word "slave" and German word "Sklave" originate from the word Slav. Slavs became synonymous with slavery. I think they pretty much knew who they wanted. It's really disappointing to see how much relativism you apply to this horrible and traumatic event in world history. The Slavic slave trade was just as bad as the African one centuries later. 4:30 The Slavs did not "descend" from Poland to West Balkans and formed a tribe called "Sclaveni" during the 7th century AD. Sclaveni, as the Slavs were called by West and East Roman writers like Jordanes and Procopius, already attacked West Balkans in 518 AD coming from behind the Danube (in today's Romania). Throughout the 6th century there are dozens and dozens of accounts of Slavic incursions. In 592 AD Slavs were fighting at the Upper Drava valley against the Bavarians and won soon after. The ancestors of Slovenes started to settle in Eastern Alps between 550 and 600 AD. Your map is also terribly wrong. It shows a Slav moving from Poland to West Balkans in the 7th century and depicts kingdoms like the Holy Roman Empire that did not exist at that time.
Thank you for sharing a part of the Slavic trade history as many seem to not know anything about it. It would have been incredible to see an expansion upon the later Ottoman slave trade in the Balkans and the Black sea region.
Video idea: Slave trade prior to classical antiquity and during its early period (8th century BC onward). The Scythian that ruled southern parts of Ukraine captured many slaves from central and eastern Europe and could be the major "supplier" of slaves to Greece. The mixture of these slaves could be the origin of people and communities speaking "Slavic languages", at least based on story by Herodotus. What's interesting is that the Achaemenid Persian was the hero of the story who abolished and fought slavery in some parts of civilized worlds (mainly the Levant and parts of Greece), which happened to be referenced many times in major religious scriptures.
@@jonbaxter2254 if you are in the US, it is only natural, as it is more pertinent than other examples. I don't think Transatlantic slave trade is as prominent in the European curriculums.
A great video - one thing you should add is how the word slave evolved from Slavic languages. You mentioned Sclaveni but that is actually an exonym, the endonymous words (there were several) all were missing the [k] sound. Slověně=>Sclaveni=>esclavos=>esclave=>slave The original endonyms all meaning something like “people who speak” aka “those whom we understand”. Contrast that to how the Germans are called in many Slavic languages: Nemci - “the mute ones”, ie “the people whom we don’t understand”. An alternative, and probably less likely, origin of “Slav” is “glory”, which is still today a popular part of Slavic names such as Miloslav and dozens of others.
At 3:50. Well, isn’t that nice? Slavery based upon religion instead of skin color. Lol. Which makes sense. Muslims were explicitly forbidden from enslaving other Muslims. So they turned to the pagan Slavs. The prohibition of Christians enslaving other Christians wasn’t nearly as strong-thus how white Christians enslaved black Christians in the Americas about 500 years later. But the medieval Christians figured if the Muslims were enslaving the pagan Slavs, they may as well do so too.
@@aghileshemdani3144lmao, yes they did. Islamic nomadic peoples went and got their own too, do you think they just left that massive economic opportunity on the table?
The slave trade is alive and well today, especially child sex slavery. And the fact that the media reports on it cursorily speaks volumes to the layman
The ottomans sold the Hungarians and Romanians too to Middle East. An example of a known person from Hungarian Kingdom is a Lady Florence Baker, who was bought by a Brittish explorer Samuel Baker on a slave market in Istambul.
Thats not even so far away. The last raid of tartars in eastern prussia for example was in the 1650s as they were used during the Nordic wars by poland as mercenaries. They sold around 20.000 captives in the middle east. So slavery is not only black. U See now a lot middle eastern refugees in Europe with green, blue eyes, blond, Red hairs. Descendants of former slaves
I don't understand why some people think people only believe slavery only started with the European powers slave to what we called the Americans today. It makes sense though that slavery in the USA gets more attention, from those in the USA, because of the long term effects it has on their society. What even more shameful is that slavery is still legal in the USA as a criminal punishment and trying to rebrand slavery as human trafficking.
Croatia just chilling there as a duchy under Franks and in an alliance with Byzantium. (sad fact: Croatian people would see independence for a millennium and in battles against Ottomans would lose Bosnia and Herzegovina)
@BigScope hahahahahahhahahaha. You got to Bosnia fleeing the Turks, A/H empire gave you sanctuary and protection. If that happened today you would be called refugees!
🫡 appreciate the video ... (I am mostly slavic ..., my father was Hungarian from Budapest but, I was raised by my Serbian family... )... Will be interested in more Slav type videos for SURE 💯...
There were slavic kingdoms that formed, expanded, thrived, had normal life cycle of a medieval state not unlike that of other countries. Now people will be like "hahhaa you come from slaves" even though it's not true. We had limited contact with all that, the vikings were basically mercenaries, we weren't raided or anything. The largest ethno-linguistic group will have to fight yet another stereotype so thanks.
There barely were any Slavic kingdoms in those periods, the vast majority of the Slavic populations were subjects to Germanic, Turkic, and Baltic polities. Slavic ethnonyms like Russian or Bulgarian literally derive as a result of elite domination from the Nordic Rus' and Turkic Bulgars respectively
@@nenenindonu There were more than that and not every one was under Mongol or Turkic rule. They could be acknowleging the position of the Emperor (Germans) while remaining politically independent.
Interesting topic but who wrote the manuscript for the video? Some statements were repeated multiple times.. Don’t know how many times it was mentioned that e.g. “slaves were often used as soldiers in the Muslims world”.
Servile from Latin or Doulos from Greek or Thrall from Norse, were terms/words used before the term/word slave. The term/word slave came from the Slavic slave trade. Later on, the term/word slave stuck and replaces the terms/words Servile, Doulos, and Thrall.
This was such an interesting a deep video. And the ending hit hard too… these events are indeed hard to accept. The holocaust museum we went to in dc was a good example. I know it happened. I knew how bad it was… I knew how much of a monster hitler is.. but like going there in person stabbed deep. Not in anger cause I anticipate it… but in guilt and definitely hatred. Because these events happened, and it’s sad that it happened. But to be honest that is the beauties of history. We are studying the pass so that we don’t have to repeat the present or future. ( in theory) you made this video hit home to us all, and it’s no wonder why you have this many subscribers.
Interesting fact: The English word 'slave,' along with its counterparts in other European languages, originates from the word 'Slav,' referring to the Slavic people. The enslavement of Slavic people became so widespread that it led to the origin of the word 'slave' in various languages.
@@Gchco In many European languages, the word for slave is sklav, sclav, esclav or something similar. The c/k sound was added in at some point. What is the word for slave in Swedish?
I love reading the comments and seeing people argue over who was treated worse as slaves, you people dont get it slavery is a evil that doesn't discriminate it doesn't matter how people justify slavery, what matters is we are all people, and people will take your humanity from you for simple reasons like race religion or opposing veiws or simply being on the other side we should strive to destroy slavery as a idea instead of debating about who was treated the worst victimization does nothing
@@Imperator6209slavery isnt bad Well in islam ,only enemy fighters can be enslaved and have right That would be better than being exuted or rotting in prison
The term ''slave'' derives from the term ''Slav'', simple as that!... the greek word ''sclavos'' [slave] comes from the Greek word for Slav, ''sclavenos'' [the ancient Greeks used another word for slave ''Doulos'' still in use... the Roman word for ''slave'' was ''servi''... the term ''service'' came from this, also the name Servia came from ''servi'' [also Slavic people... ] Slave trade in ancient times was common, controversial, and profitable just like the drug and arms trade now... The Slavic tribes were never organized into big kingdoms, making them an easy target... Some even asked from a local dominant Kingdom [nowadays Sweeden] to... ''send them a King'' to organize and protect them from other raiders... that's when the Kyivan Russ came to be...
The Western Roman Empire didn't make contact with the Slavs as the Germanic tribes were between them and the Slavs. It was only after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the migration of the Germanic tribes that Slavs started moving into Western ( present day Eastern Germany), Central and Southern Europe.
@@TheSouth-j7f I assume that in the north of the Black Sea the Romans had contacts with the Veneti and the Antes long before the division of the empire. Some even consider the Scythians to be the ancestors of the Slavs.
For you to know: 1) Bulgaria was a Turkic state, made by some Turkic tribes that came from the Volga area. Until now, there are still remains of the "Volga Bulgars" 2) Sunflower comes from America, so it has nothing to do with the story... It reached Europe much later...
Turkic isn’t Turkish. Bulgarians were a nation for a thousand years before the ottomans showed up. And while the bulgars were a tribe from the steppes, they created a country with the local 7 Slavic tribes of Misia and Trakia, thereby creating the first Bulgarian empire in 681. The bulgars accounted for the ruling class, but represented about 10% of the overall population. The rest were Slavs. So present day Bulgarians are Slavs. You are welcome for the much needed history lesson, it’s no trouble at all.
Athens and Sparta were quite terrible in their own ways. And in separate cases, their dependency on slavery did play a part in how their city-states declined.
True when people talk about Sparta they think about mighty warrior culture, however most people don't know that the Spartans were also brutal slavers part of the reason why spartans were such a great warriors is they didn't have to do any work everything is don by slaves leaving the Spartan to focus all Thier energy on military training, according to some greek sources sparta relying on slave was to such that there were seven slave for each spartan citizen.
If you visit Prague, go to the Lesser Town Square - its where the slave market was until I think the 12th century. Slave trade was a major part of the early Bohemian economy. Im not aware of Bohemians or Moravians being subjected to slavery (except the time Turks besieged Vienna, so some south eastern regions of Moravia did experience raids and some people were captured), but we were quite into selling pagans from todays northern Poland and the Baltic regions.
Most people alive today in wealthy, prosperous countries, like the United States, don't have the slightest clue how well off they are, relatively speaking, compared to their ancestors going back thousands of years. A common experience of the human race it seems, historically, is pain and suffering, caused by greed and cruelty.
@@chehughes13 Reparations? I have no idea what you're talking about. What do black athletes making 50 million dollars protesting historic and current injustices while wearing shoes made by Asian slaves have anything to do with the reparations hustle?
Excellent video, though I think your disclaimer was both unnecessary and incorrect in that the African slave trade was in no way unique, for example as Thomas Sowell has shown, the reasons why Africans were taken in the slave trade (for sale throughout the traders' market areas) were no different from those applicable to the Slavs or any other people (not forgetting the ubiquity of slavery in the ancient world): they were available for enslavement. Europeans entered an already existing slave trade as buyers, in markets that were geographically convenient for transportation, with people who were less susceptible than Europeans to the tropical diseases prevalent in South America, the Caribbean and southern North America. The only thing unique about the European slave trade is that as a consequence of the Enlightenment the Europeans gradually put an end to it, by force when necessary (rather often).
The false science of racial hierarchy was also fundamentally a product of the enlightenment; a change in morality came slowly and fitfully, and these biogtries refuses to go away even today. So your point is rather simplistic and naïve.
They did not need to put an end with force. They could have just stopped buying. If you read history correctly the ones who started the trans Atlantic slave trade were Portuguese. They were raiding African kingdoms. They raided the Kongo kingdom in 1665.
@@EstaJeanette-nk7fj And all I said is that the Mesopotamia invented slavery and that the Arabs inspired the Atlantic slave trade. Which is true What's the problem?
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white turks exist still, also, arab slave traders would often castrate
kings and generals will you address the rumors of the 12 kids in your basement?
@@newlineschannelwhat
@@KingsandGenerals ,Did you have a video of some Slavic tribes selling other Slavic tribes into slavery?🧐
@@KingsandGenerals I think the Black Americans are not aware of this history fact - I think they would be shocked.
As a slav, I feel threatened and offended because K&G have said they would catch me on the next one.
Извиняюсь
Top tier comment. Amazing.
@@tigertankerer Lighten up, Francis.
@@KingsandGenerals thank you, but I'm from Ukraine. 🙂
@@tigertankererWhy are you so negative
Slavery exists today and the number of people in modern slavery has risen significantly in the last five years.
True
Truuue although obviously slavery has evolved from chains and metal balls tied to their ankles ( unless a genuine horror story ) and become now more the kind of human trafficking and prostitution and the like.
It is a horror that should be cracked down on. Slave owners dehumanise these poor people. No one should be a slave and it is concerning that we do not actively do more against it.
In India if you are of a certain caste by birth, you, your descendants are deemed automatically to be a slave to upper castes, called shudra
Lemme guess. You're talking about America or Capitalism or something aren't you.
Evliya Celebi described the process:
A man who has not seen this market has seen nothing in this world. There a mother is severed from her son and daughter, a son from his father and brother, and they are sold among lamentations, cries for help, weeping, and sorrow
heartbreaking
1. THERE WAS NO SLAVERY IN EUROPE!!!, because there was always more people than work to do and food! People could procreate much faster than available food and work! Why would anybody feed a slave, if there is no food to feed children?!?!?!
2. ABSOLUTELY FALSE INFO! If there were any slaves or large population movements in Europe in the last 20 or so centuries, you would see very diversified races in multiple Europe areas. In reality, European nations are very homogeneos! See how American South and North nations look like. Compare that to European nations!
Unbelievable what used to go on those days 💔
@@muhammadsaad847 it unfortunately very much still does
Still happens today, just more closeted and secret
Fascinating how us Slavs still manage to exist after everything that happened to us.
@Endurance_ACEis this funny to you? You are not a sharpest tool in the shed? Aren’t you?
@Endurance_ACE I didn’t know that. I will check that.
@Endurance_ACE thank you. I have heard about Srebrenica. I’ll check Recak.
@Endurance_ACE a dje kravica pederu, oko za oko zub za zub je u ratu bilo nemoj zaboravit.
@Endurance_ACEthe Muslims were Nazis in WW2 and they worked with the Ustasha to put thousands of Serbs and Jews into death camps such as Jasenovac and Gradishka Stara. During the 90s wars, members of the Taliban joined the Muslim side and they used to keep Serb victims in silos and take their organs.
You want to spread hate? Expect to educated in your ignorance
Majority of people don't even know about this
Yeah because they were brainwashed in school. They think black = slave lol
they should given where the term slave came from.
Parallel to the sub-Saharan African slave trade - both the folks from that slave trade and the Slavic slave trade got their initial justification from the pagan status of each demographic group.
But as black Africans and Slavs converted to Christianity, conveniently the justification was suddenly changed to ethnic / racial grounds to justify enslavement - because of course it was.
Because many slavs deny this part of history.
Because it dosent fit the narrative
Regarding your sponsorship message: Slavery is not a crime of the past. People are still sold into slavery in today's world.
"*Most* people today are now free from the capture of slavery..."
Yes, that's what they said at the end of the video, which is why KnG stated they will be covering this topic more closely soon. East European human trafficking is part of today's slavery.
@@michaeladu6120millions are still enslaved
Ironically in China for a large part, while ancient China was one of the first major civilisations to ban slavery.
In Africa
Slavery does not discriminate. Any color religion. So many people were slaves throughout history
Yes because all slavery is equal. Right?
But depends on the skin coz the African slaves where forced to worked in farms and live a horrible life but where as a light or white skin slaves (all male talking) were used in either military or in academic area and there freedom were granted after some year or when they were adult or when they are in very high position so yeah all ethnicity were a part of slavery but it also varied based on what ethnicity you were
@@OnlineSafety-ng7et seems that way friend
@@ivandemko3360 American slavery certainly discriminated
@@SeikhSayedAaman-qm6fxthat's not even true... White slaves were definitely treated poorly and worked hard labor as well. Depends on the time and region. Another thing not talked about when it comes to the American slave trade is black Africans were the ones that rounded up the people and sold them to the slave traders that came over by boat. Also, I don't know why African Americans always seem to think that American slavery was by far the worst compared to all other slavery. It makes zero sense.
in ~ 1880 the father of my grandmother who was vising Istanbul coming from Lebanon to study in military school or the school of war was shocked when he saw a young girl of Slavic looks being sold in the market, she was almost 8 years old, a mere child crying and standing in the cold , he said he couldn't just pass by that awful evil market where as many were being sold there after a raid or a small battle, he bought her and bought an older man than himself when he returned to Lebanon he right away sent them free, but she was too young and didn't know anyone and had no family to return to while the older man took care of himself, she learned a bit of Arabic, named herself Aisha and worked as a nanny or a house keeper, until she married and lived her own life, later on in her life she told them that her village was part of the Russian lands and the ottomans just invaded and took everything they could in that war. to this day i remember this story that my grandma told me about her nanny that her dad bought from his younger years there as a true horror story
Ottomans were savages, just read what german officers during WWI wrote about the armenian genocide and the treatment of armenian and Greek women.
It's nothing compared to the Arabic slave trade
@@danielforerocagreed. I listen to a lot of people online and in real life talk about how awfully white people treated other groups of people historically. As someone who’s not white myself, it kind of takes people aback when I turn around and ask them, “how much do you know about the Ottomans?” That’s always a fun conversation…
Turks take pride in this. You wouldn’t find a western person who takes pride in the Atlantic slave trade
This sounds either like a fabricated story or an anachronism to me. After the Serbian Uprisings (1804-1813) the Slavic Slave Trade decreased significantly due to the resistance in the region and Serbia becoming more autonomous over time.
During the reign of Mahmud II. (1808-1839) the enslavement of peoples from the Caucasus was officially prohibited in 1830 as part of his reform efforts.
During the Tanzimat (1839-1876) where the Ottoman Empire came under increasing European influence and pressure the Slave Trade in the Empire as a whole declined even further - to the point where slavery was for the most part limited to outlying parts of the Ottoman Empire.
These factors make the veracity of a story about an open slave market with Slavic slaves in Constantinople in the 1880s highly questionable.
The Babary pirates employed by the Ottoman Turks not only captured Slavs but raided Europe as far as Iceland looking for slaves for the slave markets of North Africa.
Barbary were ottomans
They were fighting europeans
Europeans did the same to muslims and enslaved them and killed them 😂😂😂😂😂😂😂
Keep the r7bbish
@@manofwar2354 The Barbary pirates were not Ottoman Turks but they were from the Barbary Coast ( Berbers) and employed by the Ottoman Turks.
@@TheSouth-j7f commander of barbary forces were ottoman commander of the navy khairdeen barbarossa
U speak r7bbish
North africa was ottoman except morroco
Being ottoman has nothing with being a turk my grandfather was ottoman and he is arab sheikh
Naval wars were happening before islam between europe and north africa
Barbary forces were protecting north africa from crusaders
They saved millions of andulsian muslims and jews
Also not mentioned in the video
@@jonnyg7612 they were ottomans against european
European invade and enslaved people till america
Video idea: Slavery in the Greco-Roman world.
@@MilanBoros-ku7pnSo what? There are millions of videos about WW2 yet the ones put out by this channel were great and got good views
Nobody covers topics like this as good as KnG
Didn't they already make that one?
Or even better...arabian (the worst in history)
@@Eagler-yc7yx can you tell me what makes it worse then slavery in the rest of the world
Make a video about the Turkic slave trade
Turkic slaves were the basic nucleus of the eastern Islamic armies since the second half of the ninth century, and Turkic slaves founded many important dynasties (Tulunids, Ghaznavids, Khwarezmians, Mamluks)
Turkic slaves played a very active role not only in the establishment of empires such as the Mamluks in Egpyt and Ghaznavids in Iran, but also in the collapse of the Tang Empire in China. In addition, An Lushan, a half-Turkic commander, started the largest civil war in the world at that time, causing the death of millions of people.
Mamluks were Circassian not Turkic
@@sumwon6973 The Mamluks are divided into two groups. Bahri and Burci. The Bahri dynasty are the soldiers who ended the Ayyubid state and founded the Mamluk state. and they are Turks. then comes the Burci dynasty, who ended the Turkic dynasty, and they are Circassians.
Yes and 3 of those dynasties were entirely persianized and never identified as turkic loool😊
@@torikeqi8710
The Tulunids and Mamluks are Arabized
Ghaznavids and the Khwarezmians were Persianate
* The sunflower was native to North America and seeds were brought back to Europe in the 16th century. I doubt you would see fields of sun flowers like in the intro.
This is a great point! My first thought was this as well.
That’s just what the MSM wants you to believe.
They intended to invoke a pastoral image of slavic areas, which today would most definitely include sunflowers, and just made an error extrapolating that back.
Native to the Americas but introduced in Europe in the 16th century.
The Portuguese introduced , sugar cane , coffee, rice , cows , goats , coconuts , soya , chickens , mangos , horses , grapes , roses , apples and many other things in Brazil in the first decades of the 16th century , I think that the Spaniards brought sunflower seeds to Europe in 1500.
@@alworthing1674 The Portuguese introduced oranges too, apparently. In Romanian, we call oranges "portocala", and the colour orange is "portocaliu".
As a Slav, this made me sad, but great work nevertheless. Very few people know about this and it's high time that changes.
Don't dwell in past.😂
We muslims were the biggest losers in last 6 centuries in west and for last 2 centuries in East .
But I hope we will bounce back
@richie2550 You’re right. This part of history deserves more attention, and the Slavic victims must be remembered and memorialized.
@@Nuclear_WeoponMore like 4 centuries, and Germanic Europeans were the biggest losers since 4000 bce all the way until 1500ad when they (Spain) became world power
@@Nuclear_Weopon you Muslims never bounced back cause y'all are still starting wars in the Middle East.
Something different.. I like it
Glad this is getting attention, while yes the Atlantic slave trade was brutal, it’s often the only slave trade people know about
Slavery is as old human history
How many people don't know the English word slave originates from the word slav? History is missing in our classrooms.
These people didnt get a pseudoscience made about them tho the Atlantic slave trade is totally different type of slavery a very unique new type that had not been done before. This isnt my opinion its just facts.
@rickyjames4228 that style of slavery has existed for longer then history has been written
@@rickyjames4228 oh please sthu prejudice for one's ethnic group has always existed ever before the americas were discovered and slavery was just a natural byproduct of that
In the time of the Crimean Khanate, Crimeans engaged in frequent raids into the Danubian principalities, Poland-Lithuania, and Muscovy. For each captive, the khan received a fixed share (savğa) of 10 percent or 20 percent. The campaigns by Crimean forces categorize into sefers, declared military operations led by the khans themselves, and çapuls, raids undertaken by groups of noblemen, sometimes illegally because they contravened treaties concluded by the khans with neighbouring rulers. For a long time, until the early 18th century, the khanate maintained a massive slave trade with the Ottoman Empire and the Middle East. Caffa was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets. Crimean Tatar raiders enslaved between 1 and 2 million slaves from Russia and Poland-Lithuania over the period 1500-1700. Caffa (city on Crimean peninsula) was one of the best known and significant trading ports and slave markets. In 1769, a last major Tatar raid resulted in the capture of 20,000 Russian and Ruthenian slaves.
There was one concubine price list based on ethnicity made by the Tatars, iirc Slavs were among the most expensive ones while Circassians were ranked first and Romanis almost free costing around 5 units of their currency
Indeed, this is perhaps the greatest arena of Slavic slave trade there was. Even so it's not mentioned much in the video, but perhaps they have a dedicated video to just this topic coming up.
That's where Jan III Sobieski got his military experience (wiki: Jan Sobieski's expedition against the Tatar chambuls).
Crimea was definitely one of the most famous hubs of the slave trade on earth with many different masters ruling it over millennia.
very good point. There's a written account with horrific details of one enormous raid that involved 70,000 armed mean heading north to grab people.
The English word "thēow" was replaced by an Old French word derived from medieval "sclave" which referred to Slavic peoples who were taken and traded as slaves throughout the Mediterranean for the entire medieval period.
Most of these slaves were imported by Islamic kingdoms. It continued well into the Ottoman era.
The Arabic word for slave "saqlabī" is derived from Greek "sklaveni" refering to a Slavic person.
So it is true that word slave originates from slav. The word slav itself means word or glory in the slavic languages. Glory is fame when people speak words about you. So the initial meaning of slav is "word" .
Saqlabi doesn't mean a slave in Arabic it means a Slavic as in the ethnicity, and they were usually sold by Venetians and Byzantines to the Arabs since Arabs never had any borders or wars with the Slavic people.
@@andriilink5666 the etymological root of the "slave" is in medieval latin "Sclavus" originally meaning Slav...and the connection between latin "Sclavus" is same as in modern adjective "slavic", which comes from "people of the word (=slovo)", "slava" is irrelavant in this case
@koevirel8350 "Slovo" means "word" in most Slavic languages.
Slavs refer to themselves as slavs.
I am a slave. My father was a slave and his father was a slave too. Even my great great grandfather was a slave. We have been slaves for many generations. We... are best described by the word..... a slave. I am proud to be a slave and have always taken great pride to be someone's slave!
Do you see now how ridiculous this sounds?
It's kind of crazy, how much moral standards have changed in the last few centuries. It's hard to imagine a cargo ship sailing from port to port across Europe, carrying slaves along with ordinary cargo, and everyone is fine with it. The customs officials in Vienna check your cargo hold and find fifty Slavic women chained up along with some crates of vodka and honey, and the response is just, "Yep, everything checks out here. Carry on..."
Slavery is still going on in Africa, Middle East and Asia not to mention the smuggling of women and children across the US southern border. The cartel have evil use for them. Slavery isn’t as in your face as the past but it is still happening.
I think of this whenever someone says mankind is doomed, we've come so far
@@adenbrett8183 people who say stuff like that are usually the most ignorant
Literally decade ago there were slave labour camps western and southern europe where they took passports of eastern europeans and forced them to pick vegetables, while western politicians and society did absolutely nothing about it, because 'it was good for economy'. Meanwhile they were virtue signalling with gay parades and paying huge benefits and housing for people from Africa and middle east to not work but procreate :)
Very astonished to find sunflower in medieval Europe! As far as I'm aware it's considered a new world crop.
Made a mistake
@@KingsandGeneralswe all make mistakes sometimes. 😄 sunflowers are so pretty.
@@Potato-mu7nu He also made huge historic mistakes. He doesn't know much about the early Slavic history. This has been really disappointing to watch as a historian.
Wanted to say the same thing. Sunflowers are native to North America. One of the few plants domesticated north of Mexico, along with pawpaw fruits, cranberries and blueberries. Sunflowers didn’t show up in Europe until the late 1500s and the late 1600s in far Eastern Europe. So this sad tale only works if this fair Ukrainian maiden was enslaved in 1710 or thereabouts…
You forgot about the Khazars, who started the whole trade with Slavic slaves to Muslim dominions.
In any case in the end, all those Khazars, Avars, Pechenegs, Kumans, Vikings, Tatars and others got a beating from the Slavs and today they are only learned about in books and the Slavs are the most numerous ethnic group in Europe.
the vikings made the foundation of today' biggest slavic countries. the tatar's got a beating from russians specifically, not from all slavs. and many of today's slavs aren't that slavs anymore (especially the south ones). but yes, linguistically the slavic languages are the most widespread in europe
hazarlar müslüman değil musevidir
@@selcukyuksel5705 True but, the buyers of the slaves were the Persians, Arabs and Turks.
So were the eastern Romans slaves are nothing special for a group of humans at some point in history every country owned slaves@@jakedominie3654
@@zarzavattzarzavatt9309 how are south slavs different than original slavs?
They need reparations
They already got paid
From who ?
First mistake already in the first 30 seconds of the video... Sunflowers are from America and came to Europe in 16th century.
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Scandinavians involved in the business were also pagans. The reason why it were slavs was they were numerous, divided, relatively primitive as for social and economical development and militarily weak.
"The reason why it were Slavs" Most of them were 3n$!@v3d by steppe raids from Muslims. This video focuses on European part too much, obvious bias. The number of Slavs 3n$!@v3d by Scandinavians as compared to Muslims is minuscule, orders of magnitude difference. This channel always does this, Muslims working for the channel.
Well alos cause white skin and blonde hair especially in women runs a high price
@@marcanton5357 you can write the word "enslaved", it's in the dictionary, it's not intrinsically a bad word and you don't need to do whatever that was. Please.
Thats bullshit. Slavs were equally developed as Scandinavians. Raiding villages and small settlements of your neighboring ethnicum isnt the same as open warfare.
@@pawelkaras7231 You'd be surprised how discerning the algorithm is and how many categories it tracks. It's ok for you to use it, if I did, almost certainly the reply would get deleted. Not all accounts are treated equally.
Nord VPN is a legend for advertising this video. Knowledge/history should never become a victim. Good for them!
Very well scripted and carefully balanced presentation of this topic, and credit to you for exploring this. Many have no real idea of the origins, mechanisms and motivations of enslavement. Well done.
Thanks!
Those are my ancestors. I want reparations.
Well said sir, I was scrolling just hoping to see this comment. Head to New York City and get your reparations 😉
Do you take vodka?
From who?
@@naberkanka2489Everyone that's not the same color me just like African Americans seem to think it should be
I'm already starting to see this video's comment section is gonna be wild!
A huge quantity of them were brought to the Khwarezm market in Central Asia.
This is false, stop spreading misinformation man.
I got 25% khwarzem ancestry 🤣
I dont think so.. there are other slave in central Asia...
Majority of thèm were sold to byzantin empire and Frank
Using the word "Slavic tribe" is part of anitslavic propaganda popularized by German scholars in XIX and early XX century as part of dehumanizing Poles, Czechs and Russians. Equalizing early Slavic social organization to African tribes of XIX century, was part of rationalization/explanation why Germany and Austria are superior and have right to rule over primitive Poles and Czechs. In Latin early Slavic social organizations were called during it's time pagus (plural pagi) which more advanced term than tribe, and of course one again simplifying to the point where it was assumed that every group of Slavs on a territory of several million kilometers and hundreds of years was the same and had the same system -> tribe.
same shit
да, при этом славяне мылись в бане, пока европейцы жили в грязи, испражнялись на стены своих домов.
европа, особенно англия - примитивные племена, которые до сих пор имеют проблемы с гигиеной.
I still don't see how using the words "Slavic tribe" is anti-slavic propaganda, but ok.
And there you go doing the same thing you claim to African tribes but on an even larger scale, to an entire continent that had plenty of rich and sofisticated kingdoms . Isn’t it ironic? 😂
Yes, there was (and probably still is subconsciously in the minds of current Germans and Austrians) the idea that we Slavs are inferior, more primitive, etc., but using the word "tribe" isn't wrong or historically incorrect at all. Every European nation has its roots in ancient tribal people who came to present day areas. The Germans are also descended mainly from the ancient Germanic tribes. Celts, Italians or Scandinavians as well, there is nothing strange about that.
0:12 I just started watching this video. It's not a big deal, but I wanted to point a small anachronism. Sunflowers are not native to Europe. They are from the Americas. They were domesticated by Native Americans, and brought over much later.
Please do a video on the Barbary slave trade and the European and American effort to crush the pirate states.
Keep in mind that the war was not for the end of Slavery, but to end the raid of their trade merchant and ships.
@@hectorvega621 you're right. The expansion of the African slave trade by the European powers proves that.
actualy they where privateers!!! they attack (mostly) Cristians. In Aegian we stop build vilages beside the sea from 9th century...
Americans didn’t crush shit, they were Royally fucked and forced to pay jizya for the better part of 30 years
It really is interesting that while slavery is generally a hot topic (in the West at least), this part of it gets the cold treatment.
Probably because it has nothing to do with the west
The Slavic victims of this horrible slave trade deserve to be remembered like the victims of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade. The Slavic victims deserve monuments and memorials.
@@RA-pc2du well trans Atlantic slave was bigger that IS why they talk about it .
Many slaves from Eastern Europe rose to high office as slave officials in Byzantium and in the Ottoman empire . Others became soldiers , workers and artisans . Many Slavic women became concubines . Nomads from Central Asia regularly raided Slavic areas for slaves until states developed .
Nogai Tatars had the wildest raids some incursions even went beyond the Eastern Slavic areas and reached the lands of their Baltic relatives also though unrelated there is a Tatar (Lipka) populace in Poland & Lithuania
And in Iberia. he said so in the video.
So that's why Middle East people kind of look like white people
Slavic women were in the harem of Kubai Khan
@@nenenindonu Who are the Nogai Tatars? Another fictional nation?
The Nogais managed to survive only in the Caucasus, despite the fact that almost all of them were killed, the rest were resettled from their native lands by your beloved Russian Slavs.
So whose raids were the wildest?
So happy someone finally placed Croatia correctly on the map. In the Balkans Croatia was the fist independent Slavic nation and for some reason we are often overlooked. This has earned my sub,comment and a like.
And southern Dalmatia, Dubrovnik, Hercegovina (Zahumlje and Travunia) they were not part of medieval Croatia, but Serbia under the rule of Estern Roman Empire.
And it is exactly shown on the map.
@@DraganCacak-t5d We were independent and you were not. You were vassals. Therefore we were here before you had a independent state before you. Serbs today claim they were the first ones but real historians know that is not true, just same old propaganda from Belgrade.
Show me the coins minted by Croatian rulers?
No "Croatian ruler" minted his own money!
So much for Croatia's independence.
In contrast, every Serbian medieval ruler minted his own money.
@Agram_propaganda
Serbian Dusan's empire is not propaganda. The only prpoaganda is the "old Croatian" rulers, and none of them minted money with their image.
So much for who was the vassal.
@@DraganCacak-t5d Typical propaganda, Dusan this Dusan that, like he even was Serbian. His capital was in Macedonia,he was born in Macedonia and conquered Serbia from Macedonia and somehow he is Serbian.
An excellent and scholarly treatment of a difficult subject. Thank You, Kings and Generals team!
It was sugar coated and left out many important facts
I remember Don Lemon’s ‘interview’ with Elon Musk, who commented we are all descendants of either slaves or slavers, most likely both
Word Słowianie (Slavs) come from the word "słowo" (word), so basically meaning people who could be understood. In opposite to Niemcy (German) who come from word "niemy" (one that cannot speak).
The theory with name Slavs coming from slaves is German XIX c. propaganda. The story with slavery is true though
The word "slave" in English, and many other European languages, actually comes from the widespread enslavement of Slavic people in the Middle Ages. It originates from "Sclaveni," a Slavic tribe that was frequently captured and sold as slaves across medieval Europe. This trade became so common that the Latin word "servus" (meaning "slave") was replaced by "Sclavus" in medieval Latin. The French word "esclave" reflects this change, and English adopted it after the Norman conquest. Eventually it morphed to "slave".
.. and they comes back of their own, for others to repent what once have done.
Name Slavs coming from Slava, it is a Slavs, not slOvs 😂
Slava means "glory" ..."Slava Rodu" as slavic greeting. It's a old pre-Christian custom of celebrating ancestors as family protectors, with gathering and fiests. Only slavic nation that still celebrating Slava are Serbs.
In situation when.certan group of people capture few unknown people and ask them who you are, they answered "slAvens/slAvs/slAveni" end there you get "Slavs" for enslaved person.
Sorry for my English and good luck!
@@nkotur The OP is clearly Polish so he has słOwianie (from słowo) and he read this with „O” 😛
@karczameczka I am a Serb , so slovo is a word indeed , even in serbian language ,same with german example. But we are not.SlOvs 😂
The oldest written slavic language is -Old Church SlAvonic/SlAvic-. I can't find any pronunciation of Slavs with a O.
0:07 doesn't sunflower come frome Americas?
The initial justification for the Portuguese and Spanish slavery of black Africans(and also any non-Christian) was also religious. According to a papal bull (Dum Diversas), they should convert those that they captured, so in converting them, the slave masters saved their slaves souls from hell. As saving a soul is priceless, the price the forced convers would have to pay was lifelong servitude to those that had "saved" them. As the descendants of the convert would also be Christians and thus their soul was saved from hell, they too should pay the price of lifelong servitude.
Only with the Illuminism, hundreds of years after the start of the Trans-Atlantic slave trade, the racial justification began to gain traction. As religious importance in society was diminished, those who defended slavery needed another justification to the horrible acts. The "salvation" merely changed from the soul to the mind, as the "science" of the time started to link black African physical traits with low intellect, violence and animalistic behavior. To a lesser extent the same thing was said about South Italians, Slavs, Native Americans and, as European power projection expanded, Asians.
Catholic doctrine is stupid
Finally, a video about my ancestors
0:15 seconds in, "roses and sunflowers", weren't sunflowers introduced to Europe in the 16th century when brought from the Americas?
Yep, we made a mistake
Why do you know this?
Roses came from India and China
@@rishikeshwagh history buffs usually know which plants were introduced after the discovery of the Americas, because they had such an impact of european agriculture.
Potatoes, sunflowers, tomatoes, chili, maze, paprica etc.
@@hangebza6625crazy how much it changed Europe for the better and the Americas for the absolute worst.
bro used slavery to sell north VPN I can't even
Bro didn’t force you to watch his informative video.
good thing Nord VPN was exposed for data leaks
Can't enslave you if they can't find you.
hahaha
Lmfao
There is a disconnect here. The proposition was - Slavs were enslaved because they were pagan because Christians and Islam forbade enslaving their own. It was the Norsemen, Vikings who did most of the enslaving during this trade. The Norsemen/Vikings were pagan.
Vikings wouldn't have gotten involved in such a notorious trade if there weren't kingdoms and empires that had a demand for unpaid labor. Religion shouldn't pardon their own actions. And when that demand inevitably turned into a dependency, it contributed to the decline and fall of such a kingdom or empire.
@@3baxcb No matter how much you try to justify it, vikings were looters, rapists and slave traders.
Also, they did some legal on the side.
Yes but they were selling to people who were Christian or Muslim
As Tarantino in Django Unchained once said "they're slave owners, it's different".
@@alaric_you talking like what the vikings did was different than what the Romans,greeks, or arab or the Europeans colonizers did.
I knew the Slavic slave trade was big in the medieval world, but I didn't really know any details beyond that. Thank you for another excellent educational video!
God be with you out there, everybody. ✝️ :)
Amazing video as always KnG!
The advertisement is wild💀💀
You mean the thumbnail?
@@محمدالجعلي-م2ت He means the transition "you may not have to worry about being sold but you do have to worry about your information being sold which is why we use Nord VPN" 😅
i appreciate you man
thank you for your hard work
As they should be good old days
WELL THAT WAS DEPRESSING...
Thanks for making this video. It's a mature theme and a necessary part of human history, and we need to acknowledge it and its consequences so as to not perpetuate the practice and its horrors.
I very much enjoyed your video and I gave it a Thumbs Up
Thanks!
Every time they go about the slavery i let them know how it got it’s name. I’m glad someone finally made a video about this.
How slavery got it's name. English "slave" come from latin "sclavus". Word "slaven; sloven; slovan; slovian..." is variants of slavic word for themselfs like group of specific people (in that times there were no nations) coming from word "slava" wich traslated to english means "glory". It was part of their religeous beliefs...
This video has some absolutely horrendous mistakes. Let me address some:
3:12 About the clarification that "the Slavic slave trade wasn't targeted at Slavs per se". Are you sure? The English word "slave" and German word "Sklave" originate from the word Slav. Slavs became synonymous with slavery. I think they pretty much knew who they wanted. It's really disappointing to see how much relativism you apply to this horrible and traumatic event in world history. The Slavic slave trade was just as bad as the African one centuries later.
4:30 The Slavs did not "descend" from Poland to West Balkans and formed a tribe called "Sclaveni" during the 7th century AD. Sclaveni, as the Slavs were called by West and East Roman writers like Jordanes and Procopius, already attacked West Balkans in 518 AD coming from behind the Danube (in today's Romania). Throughout the 6th century there are dozens and dozens of accounts of Slavic incursions. In 592 AD Slavs were fighting at the Upper Drava valley against the Bavarians and won soon after. The ancestors of Slovenes started to settle in Eastern Alps between 550 and 600 AD.
Your map is also terribly wrong. It shows a Slav moving from Poland to West Balkans in the 7th century and depicts kingdoms like the Holy Roman Empire that did not exist at that time.
Thank you for sharing a part of the Slavic trade history as many seem to not know anything about it. It would have been incredible to see an expansion upon the later Ottoman slave trade in the Balkans and the Black sea region.
As Muslim Malaysia respect Slavic people because misunderstanding about Muslim
Video idea: Slave trade prior to classical antiquity and during its early period (8th century BC onward). The Scythian that ruled southern parts of Ukraine captured many slaves from central and eastern Europe and could be the major "supplier" of slaves to Greece. The mixture of these slaves could be the origin of people and communities speaking "Slavic languages", at least based on story by Herodotus. What's interesting is that the Achaemenid Persian was the hero of the story who abolished and fought slavery in some parts of civilized worlds (mainly the Levant and parts of Greece), which happened to be referenced many times in major religious scriptures.
Sad how the world forgot about this slave trade and the Arab slave trade.
It is literally a video on one of the biggest social media sites made from a dozen or so sources. The world has not forgot anything.
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Other things might be more popular, but it doesn't mean "the world forgot". If we are into educational content, we need to be nuanced in our approach.
@@KingsandGenerals It is highly less known than the Transatlantic slave trade. Especially in culture and common knowledge.
@@jonbaxter2254 if you are in the US, it is only natural, as it is more pertinent than other examples. I don't think Transatlantic slave trade is as prominent in the European curriculums.
Very good video on the topic overall.
167 countries still have some form of modern slavery, which affects an estimated 46 million people worldwide.
A great video - one thing you should add is how the word slave evolved from Slavic languages. You mentioned Sclaveni but that is actually an exonym, the endonymous words (there were several) all were missing the [k] sound.
Slověně=>Sclaveni=>esclavos=>esclave=>slave
The original endonyms all meaning something like “people who speak” aka “those whom we understand”. Contrast that to how the Germans are called in many Slavic languages: Nemci - “the mute ones”, ie “the people whom we don’t understand”.
An alternative, and probably less likely, origin of “Slav” is “glory”, which is still today a popular part of Slavic names such as Miloslav and dozens of others.
Thank you! I was scrolling through the comments looking for someone to point out how similar the words "slave" and "Slav" are
Slavs can mean Slave, Glory or Word.
At 3:50. Well, isn’t that nice? Slavery based upon religion instead of skin color. Lol. Which makes sense. Muslims were explicitly forbidden from enslaving other Muslims. So they turned to the pagan Slavs. The prohibition of Christians enslaving other Christians wasn’t nearly as strong-thus how white Christians enslaved black Christians in the Americas about 500 years later. But the medieval Christians figured if the Muslims were enslaving the pagan Slavs, they may as well do so too.
Muslim did not enslav slavic they are the customer of this trade....did you even watch vidéo ?..
@@aghileshemdani3144lmao, yes they did. Islamic nomadic peoples went and got their own too, do you think they just left that massive economic opportunity on the table?
Loved this video, I learned something new ❤❤
Thanks for the video 👍🏻
Sunflowers are a new world plant, there were none in Europe at that time.
Shut up bro, you focus on the wrong thing, tone deaf
That ad placement rubbed me the wrong way, "while you cant be sold today" while there are 27 million people in the world in Slavery.
They don't count
@@Anonymous07192 Neither does historical accuracy with this channel.
Good morning, Ivan how's the weather in Moscow?
@@mantheman11 is this what brain rot looks like?
How did "most people are now free from the threat of capture and enslavement" get so twisted in your ears?
The slave trade is alive and well today, especially child sex slavery. And the fact that the media reports on it cursorily speaks volumes to the layman
This needs a series.
The ottomans sold the Hungarians and Romanians too to Middle East. An example of a known person from Hungarian Kingdom is a Lady Florence Baker, who was bought by a Brittish explorer Samuel Baker on a slave market in Istambul.
The Hungarians also captured and enslaved many Slavs during the Middle Ages, even while they themselves were pagan at the time.
Next do a video on the Slaveic Slav Trade
Thats not even so far away. The last raid of tartars in eastern prussia for example was in the 1650s as they were used during the Nordic wars by poland as mercenaries. They sold around 20.000 captives in the middle east. So slavery is not only black. U See now a lot middle eastern refugees in Europe with green, blue eyes, blond, Red hairs. Descendants of former slaves
And the Barbary pirates continued slaving well into the European industrial age.
I don't understand why some people think people only believe slavery only started with the European powers slave to what we called the Americans today. It makes sense though that slavery in the USA gets more attention, from those in the USA, because of the long term effects it has on their society. What even more shameful is that slavery is still legal in the USA as a criminal punishment and trying to rebrand slavery as human trafficking.
They are mostly descendants of Caucasian refugees. Not former slaves. The numbers of slaves was much lower than those of the refugees (Circassian war)
That raid in 1650s in Prussia was conducted by PLC as a punishment for Swedish-Prussian alliance aganist PLC
many Levantines are blonde in their nature. I don't think that's because the impact of European slave genetics
Croatia just chilling there as a duchy under Franks and in an alliance with Byzantium. (sad fact: Croatian people would see independence for a millennium and in battles against Ottomans would lose Bosnia and Herzegovina)
Why Croats and Serbs hate each other?
@MadMatTom7769 do they?
SerboCroatian asking you 😂do they?
@BigScope hahahahahahhahahaha. You got to Bosnia fleeing the Turks, A/H empire gave you sanctuary and protection. If that happened today you would be called refugees!
@@MadMatTom7769 might be the catholic/orthodox thing.They are both Slavs lol
According the sagas, the norsemen were capturing around 860 lot of slavs. Literally, nobody in adidas track suit was spared
🫡 appreciate the video ... (I am mostly slavic ..., my father was Hungarian from Budapest but, I was raised by my Serbian family... )...
Will be interested in more Slav type videos for SURE 💯...
I had no idea the Ottomans were so progressive with offering gender affirming care and sex work.
does video mention about Ottomans ?
@@FredrikI2 it doesnt matter for Jordan :)
Who the heck mentioned any of that?
Ignorant comment..
There were slavic kingdoms that formed, expanded, thrived, had normal life cycle of a medieval state not unlike that of other countries. Now people will be like "hahhaa you come from slaves" even though it's not true. We had limited contact with all that, the vikings were basically mercenaries, we weren't raided or anything. The largest ethno-linguistic group will have to fight yet another stereotype so thanks.
Не жаль вас, когда вам удобно, вы жертвы, а когда нужно самоутверждаться за наш счёт вы великие у нас😁😄.
Так и вам надо☺️
There barely were any Slavic kingdoms in those periods, the vast majority of the Slavic populations were subjects to Germanic, Turkic, and Baltic polities. Slavic ethnonyms like Russian or Bulgarian literally derive as a result of elite domination from the Nordic Rus' and Turkic Bulgars respectively
@@nenenindonu There were more than that and not every one was under Mongol or Turkic rule. They could be acknowleging the position of the Emperor (Germans) while remaining politically independent.
@@nenenindonu One of the first Slavic kingdoms was founded by a Frankish merchant it was known as Samo's Empire in Central Europe.
@nenenindonu Germanic propaganda, we had enuf of it...
Interesting topic but who wrote the manuscript for the video? Some statements were repeated multiple times.. Don’t know how many times it was mentioned that e.g. “slaves were often used as soldiers in the Muslims world”.
I suspect AI may have had a hand in this
A great look at a complex and unpleasant subject!
Servile from Latin or Doulos from Greek or Thrall from Norse, were terms/words used before the term/word slave. The term/word slave came from the Slavic slave trade. Later on, the term/word slave stuck and replaces the terms/words Servile, Doulos, and Thrall.
It would be interesting if u made video about ancient empire of colchis
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Fantastic change of pace.
This was such an interesting a deep video. And the ending hit hard too… these events are indeed hard to accept. The holocaust museum we went to in dc was a good example. I know it happened. I knew how bad it was… I knew how much of a monster hitler is.. but like going there in person stabbed deep. Not in anger cause I anticipate it… but in guilt and definitely hatred. Because these events happened, and it’s sad that it happened. But to be honest that is the beauties of history. We are studying the pass so that we don’t have to repeat the present or future. ( in theory) you made this video hit home to us all, and it’s no wonder why you have this many subscribers.
Damn... I see where Wh40k took inspiration from... Top content as always
Interesting fact: The English word 'slave,' along with its counterparts in other European languages, originates from the word 'Slav,' referring to the Slavic people. The enslavement of Slavic people became so widespread that it led to the origin of the word 'slave' in various languages.
Interesting,
In Swedish language, Slav means Slav,
@@Gchco In many European languages, the word for slave is sklav, sclav, esclav or something similar. The c/k sound was added in at some point. What is the word for slave in Swedish?
@@capncake8837 slave in swedish is slav,
This video is gonna blow up, once the race hustlers get wind of this, all on Twitter will know.
This is old news, I thought many people are aware of the white slaves in muslim countries
There are so many videos on UA-cam about this history.😂
Race hustlers work for the channel, it's too subtle for most people to pick up.
I love reading the comments and seeing people argue over who was treated worse as slaves, you people dont get it slavery is a evil that doesn't discriminate it doesn't matter how people justify slavery, what matters is we are all people, and people will take your humanity from you for simple reasons like race religion or opposing veiws or simply being on the other side we should strive to destroy slavery as a idea instead of debating about who was treated the worst victimization does nothing
Well people are unfortunately pretty intent on trying to prove their superiority to others, especially when theres none
@@tomekk2091 fair enough
@@Imperator6209slavery isnt bad
Well in islam ,only enemy fighters can be enslaved and have right
That would be better than being exuted or rotting in prison
@@manofwar2354Brother all type of slavery no matter what is automatically bad and the modern human trafficking is horrible
Never been this early!!! Notification squad!
The term ''slave'' derives from the term ''Slav'', simple as that!... the greek word ''sclavos'' [slave] comes from the Greek word for Slav, ''sclavenos'' [the ancient Greeks used another word for slave ''Doulos'' still in use... the Roman word for ''slave'' was ''servi''... the term ''service'' came from this, also the name Servia came from ''servi'' [also Slavic people... ]
Slave trade in ancient times was common, controversial, and profitable just like the drug and arms trade now...
The Slavic tribes were never organized into big kingdoms, making them an easy target...
Some even asked from a local dominant Kingdom [nowadays Sweeden] to... ''send them a King'' to organize and protect them from other raiders... that's when the Kyivan Russ came to be...
The Western Roman Empire didn't make contact with the Slavs as the Germanic tribes were between them and the Slavs. It was only after the fall of the Western Roman Empire and the migration of the Germanic tribes that Slavs started moving into Western ( present day Eastern Germany), Central and Southern Europe.
@@TheSouth-j7f I assume that in the north of the Black Sea the Romans had contacts with the Veneti and the Antes long before the division of the empire. Some even consider the Scythians to be the ancestors of the Slavs.
@@tomasr. The Scythians were not Slavs but they might have mixed with the Slavs later on around the Black sea where they were based.
Σερβία / Servía (Greek) = Serbia.
Slave / Славе (Serbian) = Celebrations
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A drunken Baghdad emir, eh? Sounds haram.
For you to know:
1) Bulgaria was a Turkic state, made by some Turkic tribes that came from the Volga area. Until now, there are still remains of the "Volga Bulgars"
2) Sunflower comes from America, so it has nothing to do with the story... It reached Europe much later...
Making no difference between "turkish" and "turkic" and between "bulgarians" and "bulgars" says enough for the level of your competence on the topic.
@@hristopan How do you know I don't make the difference. Have you dreamed it or are you a psychic?
Turkic isn’t Turkish. Bulgarians were a nation for a thousand years before the ottomans showed up.
And while the bulgars were a tribe from the steppes, they created a country with the local 7 Slavic tribes of Misia and Trakia, thereby creating the first Bulgarian empire in 681. The bulgars accounted for the ruling class, but represented about 10% of the overall population. The rest were Slavs. So present day Bulgarians are Slavs.
You are welcome for the much needed history lesson, it’s no trouble at all.
@@Riga_Crypto I've only read your first point. The ignorance in it can not be easily concealed.
@@hristopan Wish you luck arguing with your imaginary friends and foes!
Do a video on slavery in ancient Greece.
Athens and Sparta were quite terrible in their own ways. And in separate cases, their dependency on slavery did play a part in how their city-states declined.
True when people talk about Sparta they think about mighty warrior culture, however most people don't know that the Spartans were also brutal slavers part of the reason why spartans were such a great warriors is they didn't have to do any work everything is don by slaves leaving the Spartan to focus all Thier energy on military training, according to some greek sources sparta relying on slave was to such that there were seven slave for each spartan citizen.
What about the link between the Northern Crusades and slavery?
We will have a few video on the topic, but, off the top of my head, Teutonic order was more into conversion and assimilation.
If you visit Prague, go to the Lesser Town Square - its where the slave market was until I think the 12th century. Slave trade was a major part of the early Bohemian economy. Im not aware of Bohemians or Moravians being subjected to slavery (except the time Turks besieged Vienna, so some south eastern regions of Moravia did experience raids and some people were captured), but we were quite into selling pagans from todays northern Poland and the Baltic regions.
Most people alive today in wealthy, prosperous countries, like the United States, don't have the slightest clue how well off they are, relatively speaking, compared to their ancestors going back thousands of years. A common experience of the human race it seems, historically, is pain and suffering, caused by greed and cruelty.
2nd Gen American Slav here... I know my history. I'm thankful my grandparents came to the US post WW1. I KNOW WHAT THEY WENT THROUGH.....
Most Americans are descendent from white European Bond slaves and they know but try very hard to forget.
Slavs being enslaved was still common to the 19nth Century until Tsar of Russia outlawed it in 1861.
In America we have black athletes making 50 million dollars protesting historic and current injustice while wearing shoes made by slaves.
What does a paycheck from their job have to do with reperations?
@@chehughes13 Reparations? I have no idea what you're talking about. What do black athletes making 50 million dollars protesting historic and current injustices while wearing shoes made by Asian slaves have anything to do with the reparations hustle?
And what do black Americans have to do with this video….?
@@kaspar_1982This video has nothing to do with black people you sound obsessed with them
Typical slave mind get to black man pocket
I never knew about this but also not surprised 🤔🤔
An impressive video
maybe you can tell us about the slavery of the Irish and how they were sold all over the world by the English??
Excellent video, though I think your disclaimer was both unnecessary and incorrect in that the African slave trade was in no way unique, for example as Thomas Sowell has shown, the reasons why Africans were taken in the slave trade (for sale throughout the traders' market areas) were no different from those applicable to the Slavs or any other people (not forgetting the ubiquity of slavery in the ancient world): they were available for enslavement. Europeans entered an already existing slave trade as buyers, in markets that were geographically convenient for transportation, with people who were less susceptible than Europeans to the tropical diseases prevalent in South America, the Caribbean and southern North America. The only thing unique about the European slave trade is that as a consequence of the Enlightenment the Europeans gradually put an end to it, by force when necessary (rather often).
The false science of racial hierarchy was also fundamentally a product of the enlightenment; a change in morality came slowly and fitfully, and these biogtries refuses to go away even today. So your point is rather simplistic and naïve.
They did not need to put an end with force. They could have just stopped buying. If you read history correctly the ones who started the trans Atlantic slave trade were Portuguese. They were raiding African kingdoms. They raided the Kongo kingdom in 1665.
@@EstaJeanette-nk7fj The Arabs introduced it to Portugal...
Slavery was invented in Mesopotamia...
@@Eagler-yc7yx all I said is that they started the trans Atlantic slave trade. Which is true
@@EstaJeanette-nk7fj And all I said is that the Mesopotamia invented slavery and that the Arabs inspired the Atlantic slave trade. Which is true
What's the problem?
Nothing change after 1000 year. Today slavic girls fly to european or arabian countries to work as a dancer or model.
Not wrong. In the Red light district in Amsterdam, most prostitutes are of Eastern Europeans descent. It's kinda sad actually.
Lot of them are spies for russia, Its a weird way to exploit the rich arabs especially in dubai where you see lots of russian businesses workers
Please do a video on the Viking slave (Thrall) trade.