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'''Slave trade''' may refer to:
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The '''slave trade''' refers to the organized enslavment and traficking in human beings,
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=== Intereuropean Slave Trade between the 6th and 10th Centuries ===
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Between the ] and ], the primary sources of ]s for ] and the ] were the ] peoples of the ] and ]. This word "]" is derived from Slav, in ] and many other ].
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=== Slave trade in the Islamic World during the Classical period ===
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After the conquest of ] and the ] (modern day ] and ]) by ] ], the ] became an important importer of slaves from ]. Slaves from pagan central Europe were transfered through ] ] to Muslim countries in Spain and Africa. Slave trade routes were established between trading centres in Slavic areas and metropolitan centres in ]. As in the infamous ]n ], the majority of slaves were prisoners captured in wars between Slavic tribes and tribal states.
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The trade in enslaved Slavs ended after the mass conversions of most Slavic peoples, in many cases as a result of the ministry of the companion ] (the former who got the ] named after him). Because they were now Christians - and the ] between ] and ] Christianity had not yet occurred - they could no longer be transported across Christian territories.
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That did not liberate the '']'', of course. Notwithstanding 'serf' is from a Latin word meaning both 'servant' and 'slave,' serfs were ''not'' slaves on the technicality that they constituted a social order or ] of persons who were not themselves ], but were bound to the land on which they lived. Thus, serfs were obligated to give service in prescribed occupations under command of the person who owned the land to which they were bound. One could say the difference between a serf and a slave is that the latter was directly owned while the former was indirectly owned. The last European serfs were ] by the ] ] ] in ].
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Neither did termination of the European slave trade end slavery. Non-Europeans generally were fair game for use as slaves, though the practice of slave ownership within Europe came to be frowned upon. Slave trade of ] ]ns to the ] (particurly to ] and the ]) ermerged, then, as the biggest slave economy in history. In the Muslim-controlled Middle East, Africa and South Asia slavery and slave trade continued to flourish. Main sources for slaves were non-Muslim South Asians, Christians from the Caucasus and non-Muslim Africans. A limited supply of western European slaves came from ] raiders.
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Slavery was effectively abolished in ] ] in the 1790's and throughout the ] in ].
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=== Slave Trade to the United States prior to the civil war ===
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The ] abolished slavery in two phases during the ]. The ] of ] freed only those slaves in the break-away ], the independence of which the Government of the United States did not recognise. Emancipation was later extended to the slave-holding states of ], ], ] (which seceded from ] and joined the United States, when Virginia seceded from the United States), ], ], and the ].
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=== Slave Trade to Brazil and South America ===
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=== Slave Trade in the Islamic Middle East in the Modern Era ===
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On the ], slavery was abolished in ] in 1952, in ] and the ] in 1962, in the ] in 1963, in ] in 1967, and in ] in 1970. Slavery has never been legal in ]
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==== Slave Trade in the Sudan ====
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The slave trade continues today, most infamously in the ] but people in other countries are certainly involved, legally or illegally, to one degree or another. Most modern slave trading appears to have two lines of focus: the almost always illegal trade of women for actual or ''de facto'' enslavement as ]s, and the usually (but not always) illegal trade of women and men for ] labour - especially the trade in ]s for purposes of employment in illegal sweatshops as ''de facto'' slaves.

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