I learned that slavery was pretty much everywhere in the ancient world. Slave markets were common place in most of the big cities. Approaching the Middle Ages, how did slavery change? Was it a gradual change to serfdom? The whole view of a slave-servant to a ‘slave-subject’?

by Still-Scary
reproachableknight
voyeur324

There are answers by /u/Aithiopika and /u/textandtrowel in How did Roman slavery end? Where did all those slaves go? Why did slavery end?