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The Vikings raided across Europe, but took the most slaves in raids on the British Isles and in Eastern Europe. While the Vikings kept some slaves as servants, known as thralls, they sold most captives in the Byzantine via the Black sea slave trade or Islamic markets such as the Bukhara slave trade.
Jun 17, 2021 · The presence of people of African descent in Europe is generally viewed through the prism of slavery and colonization, obscuring a much older shared history. Olivette Otele: “The history of Europe’s blacks has been struck by a partial amnesia” | The UNESCO Courier
Jun 29, 2020 · Europe has yet to confront its history, embrace truth-telling and repair injustices — not only when it comes to its history of enslavement, but also other instances of collective harm, including the genocide of 12,000 Roma in Spain, “Gypsy hunts” in the Netherlands, the Holocaust, the forced sterilization of Roma women, and many other ...
