Slave Trade Dynamics in Abbasid Egypt: The Papyrological Evidence

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@tet_ris_1 @HarrisStan @SingingDogz @ERnurse86 The amusing thing is that we have in papyri the original, written sales contracts that prove that Africans of the 9th century AD were engaged in chattel slavery: By the ninth century, «slaves in Egypt were mo

@JustAmerican_ @ERnurse86 Correct: Africans engaged in chattel slavery already in the 9th century, that is, 800 years before the Mayflower. We actually have their sales contracts! By the ninth century AD, «slaves in Egypt were mostly born into slavery» h