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The slaves were captured in southern Russia, Poland-Lithuania, Moldavia, Wallachia, and Circassia by Tatar horsemen [269] and sold in the Crimean port of Kaffa. [270] About 2 million mostly Christian slaves were exported over the 16th and 17th centuries [271] until the Crimean Khanate was destroyed by the Russian Empire in 1783. [272]
This is a glossary of American slavery, terminology specific to the cultural, economic, and political history of slavery in the United States Acclimated : Enslaved people with acquired immunity to infectious diseases such as cholera , smallpox , yellow fever , etc. [ 1 ]
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.
It was generally provided by other slaves or by slaveholders' family members, although sometimes "plantation physicians", like J. Marion Sims, were called by the owners to protect their investment by treating sick slaves. Many slaves possessed medical skills needed to tend to each other, and used folk remedies brought from Africa.
With each generation, the number of mixed-race slaves increased. The 1850 census identified 245,000 slaves as mixed-race (called "mulatto" at the time); by 1860, there were 411,000 slaves classified as mixed-race out of a total slave population of 3,900,000. [44]
Slaves could be held if they were captives of war, if they sold themselves into slavery, were purchased from elsewhere, or if they were sentenced to slavery by the governing authority. [67] The Body of Liberties used the word "strangers" to refer to people bought and sold as slaves, as they were generally not native born English subjects.
Some of his prophecies were that the rebel slaves would successfully capture the city of Enna and that he would be a king some day. Euphemia (died 520s), Empress of the Byzantine Empire by marriage to Justin I, originally a slave. Euphraios, an Athenian slave and banker. [46] Exuperius and Zoe (died 127), 2nd-century Christian martyrs.
These anti-slavery sentiments were popular among both white abolitionists and African-American slaves. Enslaved people rallied around these ideas with rebellions against their masters as well as white bystanders during the Denmark Vesey Conspiracy of 1822 and the Nat Turner's Rebellion of 1831.