Slavery in the Ottoman Empire
Slave market
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It did not. By the end of West Rome, 30–40% of Italians were slaves and 10–15% in the whole empire. Many had been freed and turned into serfs for farming reasons though. Like in later feudal medieval times.
Byzantium kept the big slave market by Crimea and Constantinople alive, together and in competition with Khazars, Venetians, Varangians and others, and enslaved Slavs and others. Until the Ottomans took over and continued the practice of taking household and sexual slaves from the Balkans to the great city. And the Crimean Tatarian Khanate took over Crimea.
Iberia had thrown out the Muslims by then, and instead used the Arab slave trade to start the Transatlantic slave trade to New India, and the Parthian slave trade from Old India as well.
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