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Crimean Tatar raiders enslaved more than 1 million Eastern Europeans.[48]

Approximately 10–20% of the rural population of Carolingian Europe consisted of slaves.[49] In Western Europe slavery largely disappeared by the later Middle Ages.[50] The trade of slaves in England was made illegal in 1102,[51] although England went on to become very active in the lucrative Atlantic slave trade from the seventeenth to the early nineteenth century. Thralldom in Scandinavia was finally abolished in the mid-14th century.[52] Slavery persisted longer in Eastern Europe. Slavery in Poland was forbidden in the 15th century; in Lithuania, slavery was formally abolished in 1588; they were replaced by the second serfdom. In Kievan Rus and Muscovy, the slaves were usually classified as kholops.

Islamic world

13th century slave market in Yemen. Yemen officially abolished slavery in 1962.[53]

In early Islamic states of the western Sudan, including Ghana (750–1076), Mali (1235–1645), Segou (1712–1861), and Songhai (1275–1591), about a third of the population were enslaved.[54]

Ibn Battuta tells us several times that he was given or purchased slaves.[55] The great 14th-century scholar Ibn Khaldun, wrote: "the Black nations are, as a rule, submissive to slavery, because (Blacks) have little that is (essentially) human and possess attributes that are quite similar to those of dumb animals".[56] Slaves were purchased or captured on the frontiers of the Islamic world and then imported to the major centers, where there were slave markets from which they were widely distributed.[57][58][59] In the 9th and 10th centuries, the black Zanj slaves may have constituted at least a half of the total population in lower Iraq.[60] At the same time, many tens of thousands of slaves in the region were also imported from Central Asia and the Caucasus.[61] Many slaves were taken in the wars with the Christian nations of medieval Europe.

Modern history

Europe

An 1852 Wallachian poster advertising an auction of Roma slaves in Bucharest.

Slavery remained a major institution in Russia until 1723, when Peter the Great converted the household slaves into house serfs. Russian agricultural slaves were formally converted into serfs earlier in 1679.[62] Russia's more than 23 million privately-held serfs were freed from their lords by an edict of Alexander II in 1861.[63] State-owned serfs were emancipated in 1866.[64]

During the Second World War (1939–1945) Nazi Germany effectively enslaved many people, both those considered undesirable and citizens of countries they conquered.

Africa

Main article: African slave trade