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Marginals and Deviants - Slaves

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How did Christian and Muslim traditions go about enslaving other religions?

In both Christian and Muslim traditions, enslaving coreligionists was forbidden, but enslaving those of another faith was acceptable.

Where did slave trade mainly reside?

Where Muslim and Christian worlds met, principally in the Mediterranean, the practice of taking captives to use as slaves was commonplace.
Thus the slave trade in French, Italian, Spanish, Portuguese and even English, Irish and Flemish captives to North Africa was brisk.
Many were taken at sea along with their ships by Barbary corsairs, but coastal raiding was also effective.

What was the prosperity of ports such as Liverpool and Bristol based on?

The eighteenth-century prosperity of ports such as Liverpool and Bristol was based on the black slave trade destined for the sugar, tobacco, rice and cotton plantations of the Americas.

What was the peak of the transatlantic slave trade? What characterized slavery throughout the centuries?

The eighteenth century was the heyday or peak of the transatlantic slave trade, and it would prove to be very profitable indeed for the traders and masters.
Whereas religion had been the distinguishing characteristic of the Mediterranean culture of slavery, race would characterize that of the Americas.

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