How would you ransom captives? Money? Threat of war? Let them rot? In a previous post (Abduction Leads to Slavery in the Iberian Frontier), I…
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How would you ransom captives? Money? Threat of war? Let them rot? In a previous post (Abduction Leads to Slavery in the Iberian Frontier), I…
“Slavery was the invariable result of captivity because those so taken were considered to be spoils of war to be used or sold to the…
Doesn’t seem possible, right? I mean assembly lines in the European Dark Ages? Yes. Technological innovation did not come to a halt after the fall…