We hear a lot about slavery in classical antiquity and the ancient world, and then a lot about slavery after the discovery of the "new world" and exploitation of Africa. Was there a dip in slavery during the medieval era? What led to this?

by SlaveryQuestionAsker

vikingsquad

Follow up question- To what extent did knowledge of Classical/Ancient slavery exist in the early modern world, and to what extent was this knowledge used to justify contemporary chattel slavery in the modern world- IE did people think "If the Greeks did it, why shouldn't we do it too?"

Georgy_K_Zhukov

More to be said, but /u/textandtrowel has written a lot on medieval slavery so these may be of itnerest: I, II, III.