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Did any of the European countries at the time allow slavery in their own borders? I don't think France is special in that regard.
by contravariant 6y ago
Did any of the European countries at the time allow slavery in their own borders? I don't think France is special in that regard.
- mustafa_pasi 6y agoThe Knights Hospitaller were at the time occupying Malta, and they were basically pirates who raided Muslim (and sometimes Christian) merchant ships. They were still enslaving people and engaging in slave trade. They got kicked out by Napoleon on his way to Egypt, and in the process he abolished slavery on the island.
- mc32 6y agoCzarist Russia had what amounted to slaves -serfs, who had very few rights and were bound to their lords.
- mantas 6y agoAnd Napoleon put an end to that in parts of Czarist Russia. Even after Napoleon was defeated, serfdom was not reinstated in those parts. While in other parts of the empire it kept on for another 6 decades.