mick writes: > Barbary pirates, Ottoman Empire enslaved over 2 million Europeans but > you don't see their descendants so much because they were > castrated. It really is not white man bad black man good.
During the same period European serfs were really slaves. During Roman and earlier times slavery was a commonplace social institution and the slaves were other Europeans who had been capture in wars. Athenian democracy was supported by slaves working the Athenian silver mines. Slavery was a universal part of human society throughout almost all of recorded history and probably for tens of thousands of years before then. I doubt that there is a human alive who does not have slave ancestors. -- John Hasler [email protected] Elmwood, WI USA
