Slavic Slave Trade

Kings and Generals historical animated documentary series on the history of medieval era continues with a video on the Slavic slave trade of the period, as we give timeline and context to the events, talk about how the peoples were enslaved, transported and sold, what roles they had and what was the human and political impact.

0:00 - Introduction to the Slavic Slave Trade
2:00 - Clarifications on the Slavic Slave Trade
4:00 - Timeline and Context of the Trade
6:00 - Procurement of Enslaved Peoples
8:00 - Transport and Sale of Slaves
10:30 - Roles Occupied by Enslaved Slavs
14:00 - Human and Political Impact of the Slave Trade
16:00 - Conclusion: Lessons from History

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[Overlord]

As a slav, I feel threatened and offended because K&G have said they would catch me on the next one.

[serbianstallion]

Fascinating how us Slavs still manage to exist after everything that happened to us.

[pyry]

Slavery exists today and the number of people in modern slavery has risen significantly in the last five years.

[rhysgregson]

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

[echang]

Regarding your sponsorship message: Slavery is not a crime of the past. People are still sold into slavery in today's world.

[محمدالجعلي-مت]

Majority of people don't even know about this

[ivandemko]

Slavery does not discriminate. Any color religion. So many people were slaves throughout history

[alis]

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

[Faisal-pbgu]

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)

[TheSouth-jf]

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.

[richie]

As a Slav, this made me sad, but great work nevertheless. Very few people know about this and it's high time that changes.

[creecree]

* 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.

[Gen.berseker]

Video idea: Slavery in the Greco-Roman world.

[peterjobovic]

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.

[OldKingCole]

Glad this is getting attention, while yes the Atlantic slave trade was brutal, it’s often the only slave trade people know about

[CufCufImam]

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.

[fandzejka]

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.

[JAGzilla-urlh]

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..."

[kacapcio]

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

[benimtelefoncaliyordk]

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.