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  2. White slavery - Wikipedia

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    Many different types of white people were enslaved. On the European continent under feudalism, there were various forms of status applying to people (such as serf, bordar, villein, vagabond, and slave) who were indentured or forced to labour without pay. During the Arab slave trade, Europeans were among those traded by the Arabs. [1]

  3. Barbary slave trade - Wikipedia

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    "When Europeans Were Slaves: Research Suggests White Slavery Was Much More Common Than Previously Believed". Ohio State News. 2004-03-08. Archived from the original on 2018-01-22; The Thomas Jefferson Papers – America and the Barbary Pirates – American Memory from the Library of Congress; Charles Sumner (17 February 1847).

  4. Slavery on the Barbary Coast - Wikipedia

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    In comparison to North American and Caribbean slave narratives, the North African slave narratives in English were written by British and American white slaves captured (at sea or by Barbary pirates) and enslaved in North Africa in the 18th and early 19th centuries.

  5. Woman learns her ancestors were enslaved by a ... - AOL

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    Woman learns her ancestors were enslaved by a congressman’s ancestors. Nicholas P. Brown. ... In 1869, a white mob pulled two Black men from the jail in Linden and lynched them, according to a ...

  6. History of slavery - Wikipedia

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    Slaves were used for labor, and also for amusement (e.g. gladiators and sex slaves). In the late Republic, the widespread use of recently enslaved groups on plantations and ranches led to slave revolts on a large scale; the Third Servile War led by Spartacus was the most famous and most threatening to Rome.

  7. Black History/White Lies: The 10 biggest myths about slavery

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    To be fair, white people weren’t the only culprits. Native Americans enslaved African Americans at rates that often mirrored white Southerners.In fact, when the 13th Amendment abolished slavery ...

  8. Slavery in the United States - Wikipedia

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    Portrayals of black men as hypersexual and savage, along with ideals of protecting white women, were predominant during this time [220] and masked the experiences of sexual violence faced by black male slaves, especially by white women. Subject not only to rape and sexual exploitation, slaves faced sexual violence in many forms.

  9. The greatest welfare kings and queens of white history - AOL

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    More importantly, enslaved Africans were technically considered property that was subject to city, county, state and federal taxes. Every single person who lived in America benefitted from the ...