(September 28, 2021 at 10:59 pm)WinterHold Wrote:(September 28, 2021 at 5:24 pm)Jehanne Wrote: Slaves, too, were a big Viking commodity; Baghdad was a major trade center for this. And, as you said, this story, while interesting, adds little to nothing new (in my opinion at least) in the area of medieval studies.
But let's not forget that Europeans and Americans were by far the worst slavers in history. Stories like "Uncle Tom" make me almost vomit from American brutality.
Muslims enslaved human beings, too, practiced amputations, beheadings, etc.